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/

I'm sure that drivers will be welcome on RedoxOS. At least it is written entirely in Rust, after all.

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.

9FRONT "THE FRONT END OF TOMORROW" RELEASED
===========================================

![front](http://9front.org/img/tfeot.front.png)

NOTABLE CHANGES
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The future of 64-bit platforms

As we consider the hardware-based future of 9front, we have
come to the conclusion that our current situation is unsustainable.
When we consider the declining build quality of modern thinkpads,
the 9front disorganization committee has reevaluated the common approach
how to move forward, and believes it's time to take some bold steps
which will carry us strongly into the future.

We have surveyed 73 randomly selected users on stackoverflow, and on
the strength of the results of this survey, we are confident that
nobody will be impacted if 9front dropped amd64 support.

Given the huge maintenance cost of immature computer architectures
such as mips, 386, arm, arm64 and amd64, we decided to put our focus
on the more mature and stable achitectures:

power64 and itanuim.

Therefore, all architectures other than power64 and itanium
are thereby frozen, conserved and promoted to end of life.

The advantages are clearly presented here:

- The future is 64-bit: Driven by the needs of browser developers,
  it's become clear that a 32 bit address space is no longer enough.
  As we work towards expanding Mothra to support modern substandards,
  we will need room to grow.

- Reduced distribution size: We are rapidly approaching the limit
  of what we can fit on a CD. Because we're uncertain if DVDs can
  be supported on Itanium, we feel the need to trim the fat.

- Hardware more cheaply available: With the recent rise of Ebay,
  it's become clear that as large corporations bequeath us their
  wealth of power64 and itanium hardware, the prices of such
  machines will continue to drop.

- Continued hardware popularity: We have done a survey of the
  popularity of Itanium, and in recent years, the number of active
  installations has been stable, giving us confidence that the
  platform will continue well into the future at its current level
  of market dominance.

- Put an end to the "byte order fallacy" problem: With current hardware,
  we have limited ourselves to little endian byte order. Setting aside
  fact that the correct answer is: BIG ENDIAN, we feel that it's critical
  to our success that all processors we support in the future be big-endian.

Given that the compilers for power64 and itanium are currently not
up to our quality standards in regards to optimal instruction scheduling,
the current distribution media only includes the binaries that
that have passed our rigorous quality controll process.

We believe that with these changes, 9front will replace inferno
as the common dominant consumer operating system.

Nevermind on the above. I'm an idiot. its April 1.  Of course i didn't catch it until i started actually reading it beyond the headline and image ( which was odd, but its an odd group anyway ).  

These 'human things', like this "holiday", i just don't really get.

I tried that once, forget which container. Failed miserably. It ended up destroying the container it was supposed to watch. ( thankfully not the data container, just the application )

But then again, not a fan of Docker.

Well there's always NetBSD.

I'm not bothered by operating systems like Linux dropping support for CPUs that old at this point. What bothers me is people who get mad at other people for the unforgivable sin of supporting old hardware in their own free time.

Mon May 05 2025 02:36:00 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: Linux Kernel to Drop Support for Legacy i486 and Early 586 CPUs

It's been generous to keep them supported for this long. There's no practical reason to keep hardware that old supported by a modern kernel. Retro scenes tend to run retro software anyway, or specialist software like NetBSD that's targeted for those sort of machines.

I mean really ... FPU emulation? It's time.

I'm looking forward to the end of all 32-bit x86 support ... but that's probably a while off.

My understanding is that NetBSD tries to run on everything it possibly can.

oops