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GNOME Founder Attacks Omarchy Founder as "Lazy, Racist, Ignorant"
Plus: Red Hat spokesman calls for impeachment of President Trump and to "fight the far-right extremist" Elon Musk.
Lifetime Sub Sale, Plus Your Name on the LCOS About Window: lunduke.substack.com/p/lifet…
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A Python Software Foundation Fellow, and developer of the popular “Twisted” Python networking framework, says that Linus Torvalds’ “delusional and antisocial behavior” (aka “advocating for AI usage”) has “provoked a wave of revulsion” causing people to stop updating their Linux systems.
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“The only justified police shooting is when they accidentally shoot one of their own.”
This was just posted by Rich Felker, Linux Kernel maintainer and “musl” creator.
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Congratulations to the @openbsd team on their 8.0 release!
Looks like 8.0 received tons of improvements to multiple hardware architectures, expanded and improved hibernate support, and a boatload of fixes.
Keep up the excellent work, OpenBSD!
openbsd.org/80.html
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Hey, hey, hey! I don’t want to jinx anything, but it looks like both the memory leak and KVM are fixed in Grok Bot!
Thanks to the @Bot team for getting on top of this!
Time to put that shared computer through it’s paces and make sure everything is working again.
Heads up @Grok @Bot team:
There is an incredibly gnarly memory leak in the Grok Bot shared computer. The process “host-main.cjs” grows rapidly, eating up 14+ GB or RAM within minutes… rendering the shared computer unusable for most purposes (even after updates and restarts).
Also… nested KVM is broken. Which is also a big blocker.
Any idea what’s happening, @poteto? I assume your team is already aware, but figured I’d reach out just in case! (I also emailed the support bot.)
Keep up the great work, btw!
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“If foreign courts decide to… try and get in our way, there will be a point at which we have to accept that we won’t be able to recover that money.”
– Dame Melanie Dawes, Chief Executive, Ofcom
In other words: The UK is begrudgingly admitting that they lost the Revolutionary War, and that the USA is not under their control.
Ofcom Concedes Defeat in the 4chan Case
prestonbyrne.com/2026/10/20/…
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As a general rule, the long-time (decades+) Linux kernel contributors and maintainers (Linus, Greg-KH, etc.) have embraced AI development of the kernel.
The people who have objected to AI contributions to the kernel, on the other hand, tend to be newcomers (comparatively).
There’s exceptions on both sides of the argument, but that generally seems to hold true.
Is this a “Linux purist” thing where those who have been maintaining Linux the longest only think patches and features can only be hand-coded?
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The Lunduke Journal retweeted
While all the "right on" projects like @gnome and @mozilla are busy wallowing in their own sanctimonious self-importance, all the *serious* projects like @omarchy, @OpenMandrivaOrg, LCOS, and REDOT are actually busy SHIPPING:
* openbsd.org/80.html
* github.com/omacom/omarchy/re…
* github.com/BryanLunduke/LCOS…
* openmandriva.org/en/news/art…
* redotengine.org/blog/2026/10…
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The big Linux Kernel AI fight is heating up.
3 days ago, an anti-AI activist (Laurent Pinchart) was elected to the Linux Kernel Technical Advisory Board.
Pinchart, who says there is “no ethical justification for the use of generative AI in FOSS development” (and that it is being used to “undermine democracy”), recently had a rejected Open Source Summit proposal entitled “How we can resist generative AI”.
After that speech was rejected, he said he “will think of a plan B”.
Plan B, apparently, involved getting on the Technical Advisory Board.
Now Pinchart is pushing to have Linux adopt anti-AI policies.
When long time Linux developer, Ted Tso, asked, “Who cares if [high quality contributions] are AI-generated or not?” Pinchart responded, “I do.”
“There is a small number of very vocal long term maintainers who,” Pinchart said, “never really cared about the people making the kernel. That show a very strong enthusiasm for LLM’s.”
“It’s borderline sickening,” he stated.
This is happening as Linux Kernel patches shot past 20% (of all patches) during the month of October.
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Next week, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) is hosting the “Open Technology Research Symposium”.
The first session is a “Fireside Chat” with Sasha Costanza-Chock. “Sasha” identifies as a “nonbinary trans* femme”, seeking to “dismantle the matrix of domination” through “design justice”.
When the Open Source Initiative says they are changing their mission… this is an indication of what they are talking about.
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The Grok @Bot shared computer is surprisingly capable. It’s a full Linux machine that you can run darn near anything on.
Heck, you can even drive it yourself. Pretty nifty.
Didn’t realize you could get in that far into the inner workings of the shared computer. Now you’ve given me some inspiration. 🤙
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Heads up @Grok @Bot team:
There is an incredibly gnarly memory leak in the Grok Bot shared computer. The process “host-main.cjs” grows rapidly, eating up 14+ GB or RAM within minutes… rendering the shared computer unusable for most purposes (even after updates and restarts).
Also… nested KVM is broken. Which is also a big blocker.
Any idea what’s happening, @poteto? I assume your team is already aware, but figured I’d reach out just in case! (I also emailed the support bot.)
Keep up the great work, btw!
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QA / Testing work being done by a team of clankers is an amazing time saver.
I’m doing something similar with LCOS. A small team of bots running nearly round-the-clock tests on both individual components and the system as a whole. Code reviews, scripted tests, UI-driven tests… the works.
Bots find the issues, a human evaluates the issues and decides what to fix (or not, with guidance), the bots fix the issues… rinse, repeat.
Not only is the velocity of testing & development astronomically fast… but the quality is exceptionally high.
This process doesn’t remove the need for human, hands-on testing… but the benefits are tremendous.
Big Omarchy QA News:
The Headline:
* Omarchy QA will start running against nightly every day. Still some huge hurdles to figure out, but that is the fun stuff.
The Meat:
Omarchy QA is going slower than I hoped for, but its getting into place. This is my second fully running agent test harness where they decide what is good.
* A nice running dashboard with cancellable states
* Jobs, suites, servers: have all the possible states and transitions you would expect from build servers. This part was the most surprising as it is really in depth how much effort you have to spend thinking about every possibility
* suite states, live updating website that ... runs fast? Yes I did something crazy... I made a cache, i know, actual crime...
** I even have an idea to make this load instant for every single user, and make updating cache contents LIGHTNING fast...
*** Fun side note. WTF ARE YOU DOING EVERYONE, WEBSITES ARE FUN TO MAKE FAST AND YOU ALL ARE MAKING HORESHIT SITES... STOP.
* ability to follow live running jobs and cancel them
The sad part is I have had no time to get the actual custom harness running fast, which is ok, but its hard. Now, starting today, I am going to be hooking up nightly builds and actually running this against production!
Will think about how to make this a public site, but for now, its private :(
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Open Source Initiative Changes Mission to Political Activism
The OSI joins Mozilla, Codeberg, and other Open Source organizations which now focus on Leftist political activism instead of software.
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Old tech meets new. Love it.
It is truly amazing how AI is breathing new life into 40 year old computers.
ClaudeST, a native Claude client for #AtariST computers github.com/whomper/ClaudeST #atari #claudeai
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I pronounce LCOS as if I had a Boston accent and was trying to say “LCARS”.
“Installing LCOS is wicked smaht.”
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The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has announced an “evolving mission”.
Moving from their original mission of maintaining the “Open Source Definition”, to now explicitly include “Policy & Standards”.
What sorts of “policies”?
Based on recent OSI statements and activities:
- Cultural Diversity.
- Environmental Sustainability.
- “RISE”
The OSI was also the first organization to pledge to support the needs of the United Nations in the “UN Open Source Principles” declaration.
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Bradley Kuhn says he has received a death threat today after he posted that he used used AI “on a regular basis”.
“F**king die, pathetic slop liker,” said one anti-AI, Leftist Mastodon user.
Kuhn is the former Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation, and policy fellow for the Software Freedom Conservancy.
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LCOS 1.0 Release Date: Nov 1st
65,000 Lines of new Code. Crazy fast. No weird politics. Brace yourself, The Lunduke Computer Operating System is coming.
Ship date announcement: lunduke.substack.com/p/lcos-…
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