What a wild week!  If you're short on time, be sure to check out all of the the NixOS and Ladybird stories that broke this week.  Absolutely fascinating.

And, as usual, The Lunduke Journal is the only Tech Publication, in the whole gosh darned Universe, that is covering the NixOS "purge" story and the story about the attacks on Ladybird.

The Videos

• Watch Out Firefox & Chrome: Here Comes Ladybird
• NixOS commits "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder
• Crazy Tech People Who Hate Lunduke - Part II
• Ladybird Web Browser Developer Attacked by Unhinged, Dishonest Activists

The Articles

• Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1 Million from GitHub Founder

• Don't wave the LGBT flag?  SUSE & openSUSE says you are "Rotten Flesh"

• Elementary OS & Asahi Linux declare war on "Right Wing" nerds

• NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder

• Ladybird Web Browser Developer Attacked by Unhinged, Dishonest Activists

• Crazy Tech People Who Hate Lunduke - Part II

• Lunduke Computer Operating System Status - July 5, 2024

• Funny Programming Pictures Part XLVII

Previous Few Weeks

• June 23 - June 29, 2024
• June 16 - June 22, 2024
• June 9 - June 15, 2024
• June 2 - June 8, 2024

• May 26 - June 1, 2024

• May 19 - May 25, 2024

• May 12 - May 18, 2024

• May 5 - May 11, 2024

Reminder: Check out The Lunduke Journal Link Central page for all the handy URLS.  Podcast RSS feeds, contact info, direct links to some of the big shows and articles and a bunch of other goodies.  And be sure to subscribe to The Lunduke Journal to help support the work... and make sure you don't miss out on anything.

This was a rather quiet week for the Lunduke Computer Operating System (LCOS).  It is Independence Day here in the USA, and I took a little time off to celebrate with the family.  Likewise, one of the key early developers (working on the first version of our image creation script) took the week off to go camping.

Family time is important.  As is good BBQ.

Just the same, two very critical decisions were made this week.  Decisions which will have far reaching implications for the future of the project.

BSD Licensing

For all 100% original code (developed specifically for the Lunduke Computer Operating System), the BSD 2-Clause license will be utilized.

The BSD 2-Clause was selected for a wide variety of reasons.  Notably: simplicity, flexibility, and the fact that it has been well tested for over a quarter of a century (as the primary license of the FreeBSD project).

Also known as the "Simplified BSD License", it contains only two clauses:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

This license will be used for the imaging scripts, installation software, and any original software built for LCOS.

Of course, it goes without saying that a complete, functional LCOS installation will include a wide variety of licenses (from a wide variety of pieces of software).  But the parts we specifically build will use the BSD 2-Clause by default.

Government Structure

There are a great many issues plaguing many Free and Open Source Software projects -- often stemming from individuals, with motives contrary to the original vision of the project, gaining control over moderation or governance.

We see this happening in a number of different Linux Distrubutions and projects right now... and it just plain sucks.

In order to prevent this from taking place, The Lunduke Computer Operating System will be a monarchy.

While multiple, specialized governmental organizations may be created within the project (to fill specific needs)... a monarch will sit at the head, with the authority to override any and all decisions made by any such governmental bodies.

Some projects call this role a "Benevolent Dictator".  We call it a monarch.  For no other reason than because I like the sound of it.

All hail, King Lunduke.

Lots To Do

There remains a tremendous amount of work to do in these early days -- with a pretty hefty to-do list to crank through in the weeks ahead.  But progress is being made.  Even during holidays.

Regally yours,
-King Lunduke

Past Status Reports

• June 21, 2024
• June 28, 2024