What an odd statement to make.
"On Tuesday, a developer going by "Asahi Lina" announced she would be pausing work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely. Asahi Lina posted on Bluesky: "I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem."
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/20/asahi_linux_asahi_lina/
He's a Rust developer. Those people are crazy and VERY entryist. He probably
got his feelings hurt and decided the kernel developers are nazis.
Unfortunately there's a LOT of that shit going on in FOSS right now.
Unfortunately there's a LOT of that shit going on in FOSS right now.
I'm sure that drivers will be welcome on RedoxOS. At least it is written entirely in Rust, after all.
2025-03-23 15:33 from Nurb432 <nurb432@uncensored.citadel.org>
What an odd statement to make.
"On Tuesday, a developer going by "Asahi Lina" announced she would be
pausing work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely. Asahi Lina posted on
Bluesky: "I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the
Linux graphics ecosystem."
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/20/asahi_linux_asahi_lina/
Gonna go out on a limb and assume nothing of value was lost.
The way i read it, she was a critical component in the GPU driver reverse engineering. But, i wont be getting an apple ever again for any reason so i wasn't following it too closely.
Tue Mar 25 2025 22:41:12 UTC from zelgomer
Gonna go out on a limb and assume nothing of value was lost.
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