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Who was the incredible smart person to name a new distro with a similar name to another, older, Linus distro? ChimeraOS
Also, on their main page:
While on their Community page:
Do you think they're aware of the irony of relying on crusty old IRC while touting about Linux having legacy cruft and their code being better?
@entropicdrift would you mind elaborating how the choice of a chat protocol is connected to technical aspects of an operating system? i feel like i'm not galaxy brain enough for that
It's just an ironic contradiction of philosophy.
Over on the OS side they're dedicated to making a fresh start and leaving behind crufty old standards, but on their chat server they've limited their chat tech to the capabilities of IRC, a chat protocol so old it pre-dates Linux.
IRC is perfect, that is why it no longer evolves.
@entropicdrift considering how universal IRC is for open source and how other solutions are persistently lacking for the purpose (either by being proprietary, lacking decent clients, having embarrassing protocol decisions, being obscure, etc), there isn't really much other choice (that's not to say IRC is anywhere close to without flaws but it's simple, low barrier of entry, and resilient)