Home | Notifications | New Note | Local | Federated | Search | Logout

Note Detail

Reply to @bpl@snac.bsd.cafe
💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-10-06 21:19:51)
@bpl@snac.bsd.cafe @river@lingo.lol @yojimbo@masto.hackers.town @chadmccullough@bsd.cafe @elementary@mastodon.social xenocara is not a fork. it is a locally maintained copy of the various repos that together make up x11. a lot of ppl get confused by this for some reason. you can check the cvsweb and see its just downloading all the various codebases of components of x11, updating every now and then.
---Reply---
bpl@bpl@snac.bsd.cafe (2026-10-06 21:43:07)
That's why I put word fork in quotation marks. My whole point is that 3rd party software is part of base OS, so if that software gets tainted, OpenBSD too - sometimes "passively" (like for LLVM), sometime "actively" (like for tmux or Xenocara). One person might accept that, another might not.

CC: @river@lingo.lol @yojimbo@masto.hackers.town @chadmccullough@bsd.cafe @elementary@mastodon.social

---Replies---

💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-10-07 07:25:46)
@bpl@snac.bsd.cafe @river@lingo.lol @yojimbo@masto.hackers.town @chadmccullough@bsd.cafe @elementary@mastodon.social

yes its important information. but it also shows how much the "no llm in our project" is more marketing than reality, as all those "no llm" projects also contain compiler, tmux, x11, and in many cases the sloppiest of all, a linux kernel.