Tech News Why Not Linux? (Potabi Explains)

Why Not Linux​

While Linux, and the variety of distributions are wonderful in their own right, they do come with borderline unfixable problems. A major issue is with Linux's viral license issues. GNU's General Public License is known as a viral license, which essentially means it affects software that works with it, making a lot of proprietary or "non-free" software use within the operating system questionable at best. This licensing problem makes a lot of companies - most notably NVIDIA - more hesitant to support Linux, whether it'd be in software, drivers, etc.

Potabi solves this issue by using non-viral open-source licenses, that better allow developers to continue using their license model of choice. While Linux software support is always improving, there are other concerns of note.

A major point brought up by Bryan Lunduke in Linux Sucks 2021 is that Linux is currently reaching a point of unsustainability. A core focus of Potabi is to focus on sustainability over new features and ideas. We have even started the CoreNGS Project , which is essentially a replacement to FreeBSD - our original base) that is designed for sustainable development, even by splitting up directories to make sure each section can be maintained independently from the rest of the source, letting developers focus on what needs to happen, and less so on where to find it. We also are working on strict documentation rules, where everything and every tiny error message will have to meet a certain standard, as terrible error messages (for example Unknown number of nodes detected, like thanks, really helps the debugging process).

Potabi aims to be a supportive ecosystem, that allows the best of open-source to work with - not against - the big names in proprietary software. Focusing on dependability, maintainability, simplicity, and sane structure are the core pillars of Potabi that Linux doesn't fulfill.

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. Mind it, it is unstable at this very moment, and is not for production use. Still, give it a try...

 

[LauRoman]

Isn't this idea of this software the worst of both worlds? One of the ideeas of free bsd was to maintain as much of the codebase as a whole as possible. This breaks that and is unlikely to get upstream developers contribute code to a project that removes their control over their licensed contributions. It seems stuff will go down similar to how very few contributors of LibreOffice (GPL) also contribute to OpenOffice (Apache license).

 

[mobi0001]

I know, but as you can see there are pros & cons for anything and everything. I found this as a news, where the developer has been making big ideas and churning them for something different. TBVH, I am not even sure of how much Unix/BSD etc are any good anymore. Everything is cluttered and is bloated. Who in a daily user has the time to actually read through the code or scan it to see what is fishy there? Again, things go one way or the other, finally it is the consumer to choose.