The long wait is over, Ganymede has arrived

https://endeavouros.com/news/the-long-wait-is-over-ganymede-has-arrived/

11•doener•4d ago

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aaroninsf•24m ago

Posts like this would much benefit from a terse statement of context.

I've been waiting a long time for us to explore the moon.

I haven't been waiting for an Arch distro to release... whatever this is.

brson•18m ago

I also clicked through a few times trying to get a clear description of what this is with no success.

whizzter•18m ago

Agreed, I was wondering what an old Eclipse IDE version (Ganymede) was something people were waiting for?

zdragnar•16m ago

I was confused myself, if only because when I saw Ganymede my first thought was the Eclipse release back in 2008.

I know I'm young enough to be too young to complain about getting old, but I still feel like I'm getting old every so often.

Rooster61•15m ago

lifeisstillgood•18m ago

I just realised I have been thinking about OSS funding the wrong way around

It’s not “the world economy depends on this stuff why is it not properly funded” (which is true) it’s “never before has a coupe of guys or girls in a garage been able to reach so many people, and stand a chance of getting funding”

The troubles people have finding ways to make a living whilst providing value to people suggests something is wrong not with them but the economy

whizzter•14m ago

The problem is the arbitrary way the funding is allocated, find something interesting to companies du jour with a clear path to funding and you're golden.

If whatever OSS is too obscure to be noticed by non-techies but still fundamental (think OpenSSL, libxz,etc) it's more likely to lead to burnout far before anyone wants to put in any sane money (curl is one of few counter-examples but that hasn't had a straight journey).

mvdtnz•12m ago

There's no context but from what I can tell this is a Linux distro release and the main line items for improvements are improved nvidia and broadcom driver handling. Not exactly the most thrilling release to hit the HN front page.