Brian Lunduke is an anti-woke tech journ*list who makes a living REEEEing about the Linux world. He famously documented the GNOME foundation's decision to appoint a crystal healer shaman as director of the organization, and 's discovery that Beethoven was black . He haunts GNOME's dreams and they will outright ban you if you mention him.
Back in June, he announced that he was creating an anti-woke Linux distro that promises to be politics free, old-school Unix, private, and offer the best out of the box command line experience. Let's see how he is doing:
Adding the license apparently took a whole extra month
No Politics — This system will not be taking any political stances, will not be implementing any discriminatory "Codes of Conduct", and will not exclude people for their political views outside of the project.
✅ The code of ethics is the ten commandments verbatim
Old-School — Adherence, as much as possible, to the UNIX philosophy of modularity and simplicity (Example: no systemd). A recognition that, sometimes, the old ways are better. This influences both the technical and visual design of the graphical desktop (Example: no Wayland).
✅ Wayland is new and untested. X was a sprawling mess with only one major implementation. LundukeOS achieves maximum simplicity by not having any graphical environment at all
Offline Friendly and Private — No mandatory Internet connection for installation or updates. No tracking, data collection, or "phoning home". Ever.
✅ Since LundukeOS is comprised of a readme file and license file, it will never ever phone home
Radical Terminal Experience — The best "out of the box" command line
✅ It has no terminal support, which is better than any experience with bash
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Beethoven was black:
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anti-woke Linux distro:
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You disgust me, Snappy
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Total Snappy Death!
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I will tear snappy byte from byte
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