Will the Leopard eat Linux?

00:00 Intro 00:45 Linux Between Myth and Reality 01:02 A terminological (and political) preamble 01:26 Fruit salad served on three continents 03:36 The Killswitch: my initial reaction 05:06 But then I actually read the proposal 06:45 The Leopard critique remains — it shifts 08:53 Who pays the bill for the revolution? 10:13 Rust in the kernel: another piece of fruit 12:11 The self-irony we lack 13:26 News: Fedora pulls back from AI 19:13 News: FreeBSD 15.2 and the desktop that never arrives 22:17 A note on systemd, to my critics *SOURCE CODE EPISODE 19* The most important kernel in the world is a prisoner of its own success. Killswitch, Fedora pulling back from AI, FreeBSD postponing KDE for the third time: three stories, one Leopard-shaped pattern. Kernel topic about the patch https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ Fedora and AI https://linuxiac.com/fedora-ai-desktop-initiative-blocked-after-council-vote-reversal/ FreeBSD and the long-awaited KDE feature https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.2-KDE-Desktop