It's not the year of the Linux desktop just because your billionaire buddy is using it. If anything, it's been the year of the Linux desktop for many of us for years, you're all late to the party.

throwaway1482

·last year·discuss

> How hard is it to emulate linux system calls?

Just replace the XNU kernel with Linux already.

throwaway1482

·last year·discuss

Those can be emulated with the likes of SELinux, sockets, and bind mounts. It will take a lot of effort and some adaptation, but it could be done.

throwaway1482

·last year·discuss

If they're going this way, why not just replace the macOS kernel (XNU) with Linux? They'll get so much more.

throwaway1482

·last year·discuss

Well-known developer Enrico Weigelt just forked the X server from freedesktop.org after getting the boot [0].

[0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests...

[1] https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/commits/xlibre/prepare/

throwaway1482

·last year·discuss

Qt*

QT == QuickTime.

throwaway1482

·last year·discuss

Wim Taymans is the man!