I've been looking into alot of discontinued Linux apps recently, and I stumbled upon GNOME Empathy, an app that connects to multiple chat platforms at once. I'm thinking of forking it, or making one from scratch.
My friend is making a programming language called ACPL[1] that used to be written in Python, and outputs Python code, but now, he's working on a C implementation called CACPL, which is written in C and outputs C code.
> if a system component like Gnome is crashing, there will be neither log records or crash dumps and you will never figure out why it crashed
On Fedora you can use ABRT (AKA Problem Reporting) to view logs and tracebacks of a component that has crashed, and report the problem via Bugzilla. Also, GNOME isn't a system component, Fedora would still work without it, but it would use a TTY terminal instead.
For Linus, I suggest looking for some forum posts for "what if Linus gets hit by a bus?" questions. And for RMS, he states on his website[1] that working on GNU would be his long-term committment.
Remember, GNU is a collection of packages. ChromeOS still has GNU utilities built in, therefore, it is still running on GNU/Linux. Now, if Google made a GNU replacement, then the ChromiumOS kernel would have been named Chromium/Linux, or Chrome/Linux.
Not exactly. There are some ways to install GNU/Linux distros on Chromebooks, the Eupnea project's Depthboot script[1], for example, lets users build/run a distro by extracting the rootfs from an ISO file, and apply Chromebook-specific patches, like using ChromeOS' kernel, using keyd to make patches to support the Chromebook keyboard's action keys, and much others.
(Disclaimer: I'm the current maintainer of the Eupnea project.)
You can do Search/Launcher + [action key here], for example Search/Launcher + ← triggers F1. There is also a setting on ChromeOS that makes the action keys into function keys.
2 months ago (August 2023), on a "What are you working on" thread, I stated that I was making a extensible text editor on the web. I said on the comment that my laptop was undergoing repairs, and it would be open-sourced by the end of August. The repair took much longer than expected, and had to push the deadline to the end of October 2023, as a result of me forgetting about the project.
