Solus is still around? I thought it died.
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It's definitely a small community. I haven't used it in years, but it was one of the most stable and pleasant OOB experiences I've had on Linux. The Budgie version was very polished.
I remember it being shockingly quick on old hardware too.
How would Solus compare to Void Linux?
One of the most interesting characteristics Void Linux has is "stable rolling release". The only large distribution which does this is IIRC SuSE Tumbleweed/ Slowroll.
Disgusting. Ban all clanker code.
All my projects use this:
Curious about something with this. First time I'm hearing about this seal project. What is their stance on this scenario?
I'm writing code, none of my code is AI assisted. I use a crate for some function if my code. I have no way of knowing if those crates do or don't use AI. Am I allowed to use the no exceptions label? Or do I need to use the upstream excepted? It wasn't entirely clear from their documentation.
Version 2 explicitly declares that dependencies are not considered:
This does not include source codes and object codes of dependencies that are merely linked to, not stored, within the project, and any portions of object code resulting from the compilation of the imported source codes of linked dependencies when compiled during the normal build process of the project.
Version 1 basically could be interpreted this way, but it wasn’t explicitly stated.
If it’s a fork, and you want to accept upstream patches that have AI code into the codebase, then you can use the the upstream excepted version:
https://sciactive.com/human-contribution-policy/version-2-up/
As long as you clearly identify the upstream project as an upstream project.
Perfect thanks!
I installed solus (along with a handful of other distros) during the last week, it seems decent enough, better than a lot of other distros, although were I to do it again I would probably forgo budgie for kde plasma. That being said, budgie does now seem like a very viable option.
But... my reason for distrohopping again was looking for viable alternatives to my main distro, ones that would (hopefully soon) come out with anti ai statements. Solus chose not to do that, so has now been deleted.
Solus mostly has just a skeleton crew left after the creater, Ikey Doherty, abandoned it suddenly. I personally didn't think it'd be around long-term even before this new policy.
The "skeleton" crew has managed just fine in recent years. Tooling development is still going strong. New contributors keep coming every year. It looks fine to me.
do bots have skeletons?
The last time I investigated Solus, there seemed to be difficulty getting a new ISO out (which admittedly was quite a while ago). However your AI policy announcement even says to bear in mind Solus is a "small team" (I assume to justify the use of AI?).