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Re:PureOS is convergent by theyinwhy on Thursday March 07, 2019 @04:39PM (#19332755)
Hardware support is hard, that's why this normally fails, unfortunately.
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Re:PureOS is convergent by tombert on Thursday March 07, 2019 @04:45PM (#19332814)
I do not doubt that at all. I know almost nothing about systems programming. If I did, I would almost certainly contribute.
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Re:PureOS is convergent by ethbro on Thursday March 07, 2019 @06:15PM (#19333626)
Lesson #1 about systems programming is the same as lesson #1 about internal Enterprise programming:

The fewer people who see a thing, the uglier the source is.

And as you go down the stack on mobile devices... there are very few people watching, indeed.

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