mattdm

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I am not, in the developer sense, a Hacker, but I like to build things. I am currently the Fedora Project Leader.

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Comment · 7 months ago
It's socket-activated, so doesn't really take up memory unless you actively use it.
Comment · 8 months ago
Jira is, uh, not my favorite software (ask my manager), but "AI-based replacement Jira" is the worst AI thing I've heard, and that's saying _a lot_.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes
Comment · 1 year ago
In Fedora, we don't "support" third-party packages or installation of software because we can't do much about it if something is wrong. You should go to the provider of the software for help.

But we certainly support your _ability_ to install and run whatever you want. It's your computer, and it's your OS.

Comment · 1 year ago
lol
Comment · 2 years ago
What's wrong with you?
Comment · 2 years ago
It's not necessarily about being "one program". It's this part:

"The “Corresponding Source” for a work in object code form means all the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable work) run the object code and to modify the work, including scripts to control those activities."

I get that it's really hard to make money as an open source company. (That's why I am one of your paying customers.)

The exclusion you are putting on your SDK seems very similar to that of the "bitkeeper" version control software used for the Linux kernel for a short time. Look how that turned out.

Comment · 3 years ago
ChatGPT, for all its amazingness, _never_ follows instructions. It just appears to, as it generates likely text. This is incredibly important to understand — it isn't a generalized AI.

Larger and more sophisticated models will do the party trick more convincingly... but actually following instructions will require a different approach.

Comment · 3 years ago
LOL wow that's an old-school deep cut!
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
> There is no any guarantees Stream doesn't break ABI compatibility.

This is incorrect. Or, sure, there are no _guarantees_, but any such break would also break a future RHEL release, and is therefore a bug.

2. Five years.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Try https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser

You should also be able to use yum/dnf to download the srpms from your dev program system.

Comment · 4 years ago
> The distribution needs to do almost nothing to support either EFI or the legacy BIOS or any other booting method.

I think you're seriously underestimating the amount of effort the bootloader and hardware enablement teams who work on Fedora put in to making _systems boot Linux at all_.

Comment · 5 years ago
I don't know the specifics but I would be surprised if this isn't one of the areas under consideration.

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