Sunday, March 30, 2025

Greg Kroah Hartman

Greg Kroah Hartman 

He is one of the Linux developer who maintains the Linux Kernel.

Kernel has a protected mode and non protected mode. The protected mode looks after the O.E.O. hardware ant not released until it is tested fully both on hardware and Virtual Machine setup.
It is 40 million lines of code which supports the hardware from NASA rocket booster to your washing machine to all the Android to Apple cellphones to your car radio and your home TV.
 
Linux protects your cellphone and your TV.
 
So give some respect to these Kernel Developers who do not boast like Bill Gate who has had Epstein Connection which were covered by murdering him in a prison cell. 
Even some Royal guys have had Epstein connections.
 
Linux is universal.
Hardware drivers stay with the kernel and user does not have to worry about the drivers.
 
It is agnostic reaction of the Kernel with programs and Userspace.
 
These developers protect the programmers from the constant hassle, so that they can get on with their program development unhindered from your browser to video or audio players.
 
That is why Linux have over 60,000 packages and I use only about 30 packages on top of my Debian Genome or Manjaro Genome.
 
KDE I take it as  a pain due to its immense resource hungriness
 
You better buy a New Graphic card and do not try KDE on old hardware.
 
Whereas with Windows one has to Install the latest version and then prop up the bulky drivers on top of it while paying Microsoft a FEE and if something goes wrong with your hardware Microsoft won't compensate the User.
 
I guess they should not the strained  manufacturer.
 
Whereas, Linux take the trouble not to support the hardware until nine weeks of testing elapses. Only for two weeks of new drivers are taken on board and the rest 7 weeks is spent on bug fixes before releasing to the commercial and public space.
 
In other words every citizen on this planet uses Linux knowingly or unknowingly.

Most important feature of Linux is it's ability multitask and run several programs simultaneously some as daemons in the background. 
There are deamons and Processors.
 
Each processor has a unique identity and no conflict is created when running.
 
One of the most unique program in Gnome is Stacer (which Manjaro does not have) which analyses ever process as and when it runs.
 
This is like where Linux File Mangers tabulate every folder and file available for running under Linux.
 
Linux is not a micro-kernel it is huge but runs without major conflicts.
 
When Linux installed it configures and integrate every piece of software and hardware. 
It looks for conflicts and gives a running commentary in the new Calamara Installer.
I do not have to worry installing which I have done over 1000 times over the last 30 years. 
I do not bother to switch to the next distribution when my current one is running smoothly. 
I just run them on live mode and sometimes install a few of them to see how they really look like.
 
It is not plug and play story.
It real in depth analysis.
 
Not like these Windows Guys who run Linux on a Virtual Box and say Linux Sucks at the behest of the Microsoft Hierarchy. 
It is all propaganda gimmicks.
 
Kernel drivers are one third of the size of Windows due to refactoring commonality within the kernel.
Proper spelling is Kernal when this word came into existence first in 1980s.
 
Linux is like a pyramid.
There are 800 maintainers which look after every subsystem or every layer of the pyramid. 
It is a huge task unprecedented
 
That is why it is rock solid like a pyramid and could last the nest century but my worry is the AI Guys take this FREEDOM and misappropriate the Wonder Developed that was laid down over 30 years.
 
Linux is based on Human Trust and not Corporate Greed.
 
There is a Trust Tree where new patches are lined up before release.
 
1. There is  Stable Release which is time tested.
 
2. Then there is a Testing Release and this is for the developers.
I used Testing Image in Linux only once and it did not go through well with the full installation.
Network Site did not give the authorization for Install.
 
Stable Release lasts two years.
 
Even though new patches are released every 7 weeks they are not bundled to a Stable Release for another two years
The developer have to be satisfied with the Testing Kernel and have to be responsible for fixing the bugs that might arise due to something faulty in the Original Code.

Linux is written in C for 30 years and there are no C++ blocks.
Rush is emerging as another programming language which is good perhaps in memory management and lack in fixing drivers for hardware.
I say we do not need to reinvent the Linux Wheel. Rush guys should not rush and become impatient.
Linux kernel maintainers will look at rush and bind them to the C-Code where they match together. If Rush keep adding stuff that do not match or actually do not need for functionality in Linux, it is far better they rewrite everything bottom up and grow its own identity call Rush Operating System.

Openmamba

It is again Plasma based and heavy and has no Gnome support with Synaptic Package Manager. Unlike other distributions it has its own software center, and that is a plus point. I won.t use it until it is Gnome ready.

KDE Plasma

The most evolved and complete desktop system of openmamba, KDE Plasma based. For every user who wants a modern, multimedia and productive desktop.

Available in downladable media: diskimg-livecd, livedvd, livecd, rootfs, diskimg-raspberrypi-plasma.

LXQt

Openmamba system with a simple and light desktop. For server installation or desktop on obsolete PC, embedded systems, tablet, single-board PC.

Available in downlaodable: livecd-light, rootfs-light, diskimg-raspberrypi

 

    • it is not a derivative neither depends on other existing distributions;
    • uses the RPM packaging format to distribute software components;
    • uses DNF and PackageKit as updates managers;
    • supports the installation of packages from Flatpak repositories;
    • implements a rolling mechanism to deploy continuous updates to the latest software releases;
    • it is available for x86 (64 bits with legacy support for 32 bits) and aarch64 (arm64) architectures.

    Bazzite Linux

    Bazzite Linux

    I have fallen out of Redhat and Fedora for ages.

    However, having browsed FOSS Linux I decided to download Bazzite Image of 7.72GB.

    It is a Gamer and it has an image for hand held devices.

    It claimed to support Lutris and Steam.

    It is a Installer Image and takes over the hard disk.

    It was just  a waste of time and when I burned it to the USB, I could smell charcoal burn which is perhaps even nastier than expected. 

    By the way, current Batocera also takes over the hard disk. I haven't got a bootable USB now. I had in the past but erased it.

    I am glad I left Redhat and Fedora long time, ago.

    It was after an altercation with a Foreign monk (perhaps a homosexual guy), in Sarana Road Colombo 7, long long time ago. I managed to get the 6 out of 7 C.D.S from Singapore (I knew a guy in Colombo who had worked in Singapore and got the C.D.S for me). I think he copied them using Windows Utility which did not read and write one CD).

    I got some CDS and later DVD that came with Large Linux books before I went for Mandrake Linux which got the Linux Ball rolling for me.