Quite the contrary, the fragmented ecosystem is holding RISC-V back.

There are currently 3 variants of LoongArch ISA. The reduced 32-bit version targets MCUs. And LoongArch64 ATX/MATX motherboards with UEFI support is readily available. This makes it far more easier to develop with LoongArch.

What evidence do you have that RISC-V is being held back by fragmentation?

Every upcoming general purpose RISC-V core I'm aware of is targeting RVA23. That's even less fragmentation than x86 has.

Meanwhile, I don't know of ANY third-party chip designs using LoongArch, so asserting no fragmentation seems to be misrepresenting the situation a bit.

That's good news. Hopefully there will be more affordable replacements for x86 PCs.

openSUSE does.

I think live attenuated vaccines produce a stronger and more durable immune response than inactivated vaccines.

Fedora removes elliptic curve algorithms from the source code level [1] and disables hardware acceleration for H.264 / H.265 [2].

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615372

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Disable-Bad-VA-API

Yes, distributing non-free, patented code that requires a license, requires a license. The same goes for Debian actually[1], including blocking requests and removing packages that were included before by mistake.

I would even dare say that this is another point for Fedora, enabling https://rpmfusion.org/ is a one-liner and feels entirely native, never a broken package.

[1] https://www.debian.org/legal/patent

RPM Fusion does not give me uncrippled crypto libraries. It’s caused by their paranoia about export restrictions, not patents.

It is hard to recommend Google Cloud https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41614795

Then why not cut imports now. Time will only make them more resistant.

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re not formally at war yet. The US historically doesn’t make the first move since we’re a democratic republic and most constituents do not like war; it would also alienate most of our nominal allies. The best the US can do right now is containment and being ready to cut the supply lines from the Middle East.

It's better than an OS that you have no control from top to bottom. But sure, it isn't ideal.

As if there are guarantees that gTLDs won't be sold to shady entities.

HK is part of China.

And it was part of 1 country 2 systems.

Which proved there is no such thing. Because the CCP still has their foot in HK and making sure there is no 2 systems.

Obviously