On 2026/10/25 16:17, Andreas Røsdal wrote:
Your efforts to help include Northstar browser into AUR for Arch Linux is much appreciated!This browser is already available on Windows Store and Google Play store, where it had been subject to the review process of those stores.
A very recent attempt to get Northstar into Debian didn't go so well. A rather messy "discussion" (if it can be called that), which would make me caution anyone to "just" package this.
Link: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/10/msg00114.html and replies.
Also, there were was a security / technical review by Ted Tso, which got just brushed off because his employer is Google and therefore he must be biased against competitor browser projects? Ted Tso also wrote something about the question of copyright and LLM generated code. Altogether well thought-out reviews from a highly respected member of the tech and OS communities, but in the end:
"Ok, I appreciate all the feedback and reviews from this community. Still I feel that the review from Theodore Tso is highly biased, and I think this is because Theodore Tso is employed by Google, which makes a competing web browser, Google Chrome. Therefore in my opinion the Nordstjernen web browser was not given a fair chance by the Debian community, and I will focus on other Linux distributions which does not have Google-/corporate-biases like Debian does in this instance."
Sincerely, Andreas Røsdal
> ...>> Yet Claude Code has added over 67k lines of code, probably more.
I don't know. For such an important piece of software like a web browser, I prefer to stay with more mature software.
Bit more than that; mostly all of it, I would guess, from reading the Debian mailing list on this topic.
Do with it what you want. -- Edmund Lodewijks <[email protected]> TZ: UTC+2 / GMT+2
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