Ikey Doherty, the creator of Solus and AerynOS, is back with Barney, a Rust tool that builds Linux distros from source. So that you can easily create your own Omarchy.

In a video posted on YouTube, the creator of Solus and AerynOS called the money behind DHH’s distro absurd and promised to do it better with nothing. His answer is Barney, a Rust-based tool for building Linux distros from source.

    • new_otters_raft@piefed.caOP
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      3 hours ago

      It’s worth mentioning something in order to point out why it’s bad? It’s in the news right now and people are currently discussing it, and it’s not like someone is going to read this article and be more likely to go support it

      This article is saying that Omarchy isn’t doing anything that novel or special, and that this developer is trying to create a tool that will allow anyone to do the same thing without millions of dollars of funding

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          I’m glad that I’m not the only one picked up on this. Just made my comment that it was needless to mention Omarchy.

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      The nazi bar problem I understand, but why is using open source provided by a nazi wrong?

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        Would you trust to install an operating system, that was provided by actual Nazi Germany? Would you install or recommend ANY distribution you don’t trust to someone else?

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        what happens when the next update is the one that puts spyware in it and hands it directly to big brother?

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        I don’t particularly care in the abstract but this particular piece of software is also technically awful vibecoded slop. And DHH isn’t a random nazi, but a nazi with a platform provided by the popularity of his slopware.