Issue #293 / Apr 2025

The Linux universe had a serious discussion a few years ago about how to talk to each other, and it seemed like things were going better, but the recent dust-up between the Rust for Linux (R4L) community and some of the kernel maintainers has left me wondering if more needs to be said.

Debian 12.9 Live Gnome and Arch Linux 2025.02.01

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