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   Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 22-Sep-2023 05:17:29 JST Alexandre Oliva
   .oO linux announces plan to deal with the incompatibility nightmare that rust's instability brought
   https://gnusocial.net/url/19707623
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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 22-Sep-2023 08:40:07 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • Julius Schwartzenberg
     GNU LTS distros benefit from shared upstream maintenance. GNU Linux-libre has no trouble keeping up with LTS several weekly stable releases. I'm more worried about what I'm told about rust, that code that compiled recently no longer does. that will make maintaining rust code in Linux quite a pain in the long term: you'll need different rust toolchains for different kernel versions, and they won't be interchangeable. or will kernel LTS releases keep up with changes to rust and break compatibility with older toolchains? that sucks either way. so I'm not surprised they're dropping this hot potato before it burns their hands. but it will burn whoever signs up for maintaining kernels for the long term.
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     Julius Schwartzenberg (jschwart@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 22-Sep-2023 08:40:08 JST Julius Schwartzenberg

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     @lxo it seems that these LTS versions of the kernel Linux were mainly useful for non-GNU operating systems like Android? I'm curious to learn about your take on how this affects GNU and other free systems. (Also in light of GNU Linux-libre.) Incompatibility tends to be a bigger problem for those lacking source code.