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FOSS toxicity, burnout and governance (again)

March 23, 2025

I recently read with interest the post where Hector Martin resigned as Asahi Linux leader. As possibly well-known, Asahi Linux is the very first Fedora-based distribution where all the hard work to support the Apple ARM M* chip series in the Linux world found its way.

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FOSS governance and sustainability in the third millennium

October 11, 2024

I have long participated in the FOSS community. My first public contribution was the YardRadius project in 1995, a consolidation of the old Livingston Radius daemon and a series of add-ons written by Christian Gafton (RIP) and me. That was some years before the more significant FreeRadius project. At that time, I ran for a period an ISP just before the dotcom bubble exploded, but that's another story...

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