Asahi Lina: For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I've paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely.
Asahi Lina: For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I've paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely.
For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I've paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely.
I can't share any more information at this time, so please don't ask for more details. Thank you.
If you think you know what happened or the context, you probably don't. Please don't make assumptions. Thank you.
I'm safe physically, but I'll be taking some time off in general to focus on my health.
Well that's sudden.
This is the worst way how to announce something like this.
I don't know the context, but if the goal was to not start a wave of speculations, it would be better to simply not hint at anything. I wonder what happened, and I respect if they don't want to deal with it, but this does feel weird.
I no longer feel safe
Please don’t make assumptions
Yeah wtf is that. If there are reasons to feel unsafe that arent just entirely individual, then you should tell other people that might be in danger. If its entirely individual, then state that so that other people wont be worried about their safety.
Damned right I read that and thought "It's your first day on the internet?"
There is a small match lit in the floor it will probably snuff out itself but just to be sure let's put it out with gasoline
It's basically vaguebooking.
Well. What were the options? Stopping without saying anything? Lying? I think this is better. Sure I'll speculate. Bit I'll keep it for myself
Don't tease gossip? Either say "I'm quitting due to personal reasons" or give actual details "I'm quitting because I received ongoing abuse about being trans on X from several users and I'm fed up with it" (or whatever the reason was; I just guessed that).
Maybe the goal was to spur speculation, but I don’t know how that would benefit anyone. I’m curious if any additional info will come to light.
Wild. All I wanna do now is make assumptions. 🤣
Most of it was pretty much said in the previous announcement from the Asahi leadership. The TL:DR is that people are incredibly entitled, support took a huge downturn, but demands kept rising, and allegedly there have been numerous personal attacks on people. The Linux project leadership drama was just the whipped cream on top of the cake
RIP Asahi Linux.
Fuck off to all the fascists ruining OSS.
What fascists are ruining OSS?
Guessing it's because Lina is queer. A little bit ago, I was trying to find what was going on and found a bunch of bigoted comments and conspiracy theories about her and her girlfriend(maybe wife now?).
First Marcan, now Lina. Huge blow to the Asahi project :(
Twas the same person, AFAIKEdit: Apparently they're not, or at least there's a bunch of controversy there I have absolutely no intention of getting into.
WTF? Is somebody threatening her for working on open source drivers???
What is this fucking timeline...
Edit: ohhhhh...there seems to be a LOT of underlying stuff happening here. Like Lina is an anime alter-ego of Marcan I guess? So confused...
If the Rust maintainers keep dropping like this, I foresee Linux eventually losing its lead as an operating system. The transition to Rust is absolutely necessary, other OSs are catching up slowly but surely.
And unlike AI, this makes an actual positive difference in maintainability and speed.
other OSs are catching up slowly but surely.
Which ones are those? Linux is a rock, it doesnt budge it just slowly but surely does its thing. Thats why people use Linux, because it serves its purpose and it has been doing that for a while without Rust.
Redox is advancing, I think it's possible for it to become dominant someday, I don't know the likelihood but if rust in linux dies completely it feels almost inevitable.
would probably be for the best anyway, they're porting wayland and cosmic, would be nice to undo all the technical debt in the long run probably. Not for a very long time though.
Rust isn't necessary. It can be mildly helpful, but it's also hurt in that it's community tends to make it actively unhelpful, just like in this case.
Linux development happened just fine for decades before rust, and while there are benefits to rust from a security point of view, if they can't maintain the code, they'll just go back to C and deal with process and policy for managing memory safety.
Some old fashioned c++ and c developers, like me, feel more entitled to entrench more, and see Rust as a political movement, and not a serious tool.
I’m fairly reactionary against adding more Rust to stable projects. While I’m sure at some of that is me being old and set in my ways, the other gives people like me talking points, which may or may not help.
Spinning more drama around this project, that’s what it needs.
Yeah classic attention seeking behaviour. Just say you're stopping work on it for personal reasons, or give details. The only reason to tease gossip like this is because you like the drama.
Wtf is with this downvote brigade?
Edit: if anyone else is as fucking lost as I was, apparently this is some situation where the person who is resigning is trans, so obviously not attention seeking behavior even if the post is written in a truly bonkers way. Hence the downvote brigade for the above. Whether that person knew or not is open for debate since I don't see anything in the OP indicating anything at all to this effect and had to get it from an unrelated thread but...
I don't think this thread is helping.
There are a lot of other people also working on Linux gpu drivers. Heck I know someone at AMD doing it now. Lots of people seem to be oddly blowing this out of proportion like it will stop the entire ecosystem of Linux.
The project is for making unofficial drivers for Apple's chips, which very few people are trying to do. Without Asahi, you can't run Linux on Macbooks.
Ah thanks for the summary.
Still, very odd to buy expensive hardware that is required for running macOS due to their use license just to run Linux on it. Maybe if you bought it first and then wanted to move away from it, but that seems like a big headache.
Another reason to be wary of Apple then.
Good, why waste a perfectly good machine ;)
Without Asahi, you can’t run Linux on Macbooks.
good.