R.L. Dane 
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Well, that's depressing. :(
https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware
List of #FOSS projects using #slop (yes, including the Linux kernel and of COURSE systemd)
jnsLinux is primarily a tool for fortune-500 companies first, and end-users like thee and me, last.
Given the fact that most Linux contributors are on a corporate payroll, no surprise.
Computing as we knew it, is dead. The future has been robbed from us.
OBI-WAN: That boy was our last hope.
YODA: No. There is another.
I mean, there's always the BSDs, Haiku, heck, the Commodore 64 is back, so anything can happen. ;)
@rl_dane Hah :) Haiku gives me some hope. They do actively resist the ai nonsense, so far,...
The c64 might be the better way to go :D
Anything that needs to be general purpose enough to work with modern hardware is always going to be disadvantaged by having to reverse engineer proprietary drivers and hardware.
There used to be enough people to somewhat keep up with that, and some shift in mentality at the manufacturer side to be a bit more reasonable with providing open drivers and/or documentation, but in the past few years or so, none of that is true anymore.
I am seeing projects long considered stable fall apart due to losing maintainers left and right, and projects that are still alive get flooded with new developers pushing bad practices as if it were a personal crusade. The software landscape in general seems to be slowly unraveling into complete dysfunction.
Sticking with an as-simple-as-possible stack where all parts can be maintained by one person seems like the most reasonable way out of the mess. (there's more capable options other than a c64 these days though ;) - reviving something like Wirth's project oberon on a somewhat more modern fpga would be a fun start.. )
mirabilosNXP seems to be favored by open hardware folks, so maybe?
NXP? They're the ones that make the Coldfire architecture, according to wikipedia.
If you're referring to the actual open hardware project that uses them, I believe the #MNTREform started out with an #NXP processor.
Bitslingers-R-Us@rl_dane @mirabilos @jns NXP inherited (is that the right word for this?) Motorola’s stuff.
What I’d love to see is a few GHz, few core m68k with a DDR4 controller that can have a full 4 gigs. All that software that can run reasonably well now, in 2026, on m68030 Amigas would absolutely fly.
I’ll just copy and paste something I wrote a while ago:
Imagine explaining this to someome in 1995:
“In thirty years our computers will have sixteen threads of execution at 4.5 GHz each, with 4 IPC or better, along with 16 gigabytes of memory that can move data at 50 gigabytes a second. Practically everyone will have solid state storage that loads and saves at more than a gigabyte per second. Many computers will have GPUs capable of beating the fastest supercomputers in the 1995 world, and most of that capacity will be used for little more than just pushing pixels to a monitor.”
“Wow! I bet Microsoft Word will load instantly!”
“No. It’ll take longer to load than Word 5.1 takes to load on an Amiga with an ‘060 accelerator running ShapeShifter. It’ll be so slow that Microsoft decides to load key parts of Office when the system boots, but only if you have more RAM than can be directly accessed by a 32 bit processor.”