The long wait is over, Ganymede has arrived

I just realised I have been thinking about OSS funding the wrong way around

It’s not “the world economy depends on this stuff why is it not properly funded” (which is true) it’s “never before has a coupe of guys or girls in a garage been able to reach so many people, and stand a chance of getting funding”

The troubles people have finding ways to make a living whilst providing value to people suggests something is wrong not with them but the economy

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VikingCoder 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

If you're making a product, I think Kickstarter is awesome.

If you're making entertainment, I think Patreon is awesome.

If you're making OSS... I'm not sure we have a good system. Buy Me A Coffee or a TipJar... Starring a repository... They're good... but they're not enough.

Upvoting on Hacker News whenever I see something promising is another thing I do that I hope might help...

I kind of wish I could subscribe to some monthly payment that tracked my usage of OSS, and sent each a fraction of the money, and that they appraised which systems they depended on, so it flowed down to them, too, and etc...

	▲	0x1ch 13 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I've donated quite a bit through the Kofi and Tipjar payment systems for neat OSS apps I use. I agree that it's not enough, however we do have other systems in place via Github sponsorships, Patreon (consistent funding), etc. It's up for the community to adopt those platforms for their project
	▲	fragmede 3 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I like where you're going. I'm intrigued! but what would it look like? For example, curl. I use curl it's awesome. I love it. It's not at a level where I'm going to go to community meet ups for it though, but I'm super happy it exists. I can buy stickers for my laptop and do free advertising? It's all psychological. If curl had a micropayment system and every time you used it, it cost a 10th of a penny and there's a monthly subscription. Oh God, holy hell, no! But at the same time, I don't want Daniel Stenberg to go hungry.

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whizzter an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

The problem is the arbitrary way the funding is allocated, find something interesting to companies du jour with a clear path to funding and you're golden.

If whatever OSS is too obscure to be noticed by non-techies but still fundamental (think OpenSSL, libxz,etc) it's more likely to lead to burnout far before anyone wants to put in any sane money (curl is one of few counter-examples but that hasn't had a straight journey).

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embeng4096 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I just switched to EndeavourOS for 95% of my home computer needs last week (I left my Windows install on a separate drive for gaming and especially those that require super invasive anticheat, e.g. AAA multiplayer FPS) and it has been a wonderful experience so far.

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Barrin92 21 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>We still love what we do over here, but we all have chosen to let our lives and loved ones come first over the project

I think that's sensible but from a user perspective it's also why I think these nth degree derivatives are pointless. So much infrastructure and maintenance to effectively ship arch with a wallpaper.

Many of these projects eventually go the way of the dodo, I believe this is in itself a successor to Antergos. Just install Arch, Debian or Fedora and take 10 minutes to configure the desktop. The biggest issue with arch was the setup but they ship a TUI install script now that anyone can use. The OS on your computer shouldn't be a hobby project.

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leeoniya 27 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

after trying multiple distros 6 years ago to replace the enshittified Windows 8/10 [1], ended up at EndeavourOS + KDE. there is very little i miss about Windows. maybe Foobar2000.

amazing distro.

[1] after it messed up my linux dual boot config, continuously reset my registry tweaks with forced updates / restarts, insisted on re-enabling the io-destroying Defender, and started force-feeding me ads

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gosub100 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I recently tried this distro on my raspberry pi and it was awesome.

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obloid an hour ago | parent [-]

I recently put Endeavour with KDE on an old laptop (c. 2013). It runs great. Much snappier than it ever did with windows. Great distro.

	▲	gosub100 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I put an m.2 SSD on my Pi and dropped in an Intel optane 16gb SSD for $10 on eBay. Its definitely snappy

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aaroninsf an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Posts like this would much benefit from a terse statement of context.

I've been waiting a long time for us to explore the moon.

I haven't been waiting for an Arch distro to release... whatever this is.

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whizzter an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Agreed, I was wondering what an old Eclipse IDE version (Ganymede) was something people were waiting for?

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madcaptenor an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I thought this too. But if there was a probe sent out to Ganymede wouldn't we have arrived at it? If Ganymede (the moon) is arriving at Earth we have a whole other set of problems.

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brson an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I also clicked through a few times trying to get a clear description of what this is with no success.

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egypturnash an hour ago | parent [-]

"Start your Endeavour with a lightweight Arch-based, terminal centric system ready to personalise and a stellar community at your side"

- the front page of the site

	▲	ordersofmag an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The multiple meanings of many of the words in this sentence make it really poor at communicating what the site is about. "Endeavour" (with a capital 'E') is a proper name I associate with a space shuttle, and 'stellar' can mean 'having to do with stars'. So a first read for me leads to the conclusion that this site has something to do with space flight. And 'system' could mean almost anything. Maybe this site will let me personalize my own star system? All I can take away is that I'm not sure what this is, but clearly I'm not the target audience. Which I'm fine with.....
	▲	debugnik an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Rephrasing, Endeavour is something that is started with a terminal system based on Arch. I know that's a cheesy way to say it's an Arch distro but I hope you notice how poor the phrasing is for someone trying to understand what they've been linked to.

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zdragnar an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was confused myself, if only because when I saw Ganymede my first thought was the Eclipse release back in 2008.

I know I'm young enough to be too young to complain about getting old, but I still feel like I'm getting old every so often.

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Rooster61 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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mvdtnz an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

There's no context but from what I can tell this is a Linux distro release and the main line items for improvements are improved nvidia and broadcom driver handling. Not exactly the most thrilling release to hit the HN front page.

	▲	basch 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		its #5 on distrowatch, and #2 of arch variants. hn should be a place where you can post niche things, and come to the comments or click through if you are out of the loop.