--- title: DHH's Omarchy push pulls in tech billionaires, GitHub's... description: Omarchy's rewrite and a new $8M foundation drew Michael Dell, Toby Lütke, and other checkbooks into the Linux desktop conversation, while Framework's Fedora... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/dhh-s-omarchy-push-pulls-in-tech-billionaires-github-s-outages-pile-up-huia0mwg7 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: DHH's Omarchy push pulls in tech billionaires, GitHub's outages pile up | daily.dev og:description: Omarchy's rewrite and a new $8M foundation drew Michael Dell, Toby Lütke, and other checkbooks into the Linux desktop conversation, while Framework's Fedora... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/dhh-s-omarchy-push-pulls-in-tech-billionaires-github-s-outages-pile-up-huia0mwg7 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/HuIA0mWG7.png og:image:alt: DHH's Omarchy push pulls in tech billionaires, GitHub's outages pile up og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # DHH's Omarchy push pulls in tech billionaires, GitHub's outages pile up **[Open Source Digest](https://daily.dev/sources/opensource_digest)** · 5 min read · 7 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Omarchy's rewrite and a new $8M foundation drew Michael Dell, Toby Lütke, and other checkbooks into the Linux desktop conversation, while Framework's Fedora preorders are outpacing Windows 10 to 1. Linus Torvalds spent a weekend debugging a one-character Intel Xe driver bug with an AI assistant that kept insisting the fix was impossible. GitHub went down for nearly eight hours as commit volume nearly doubled year over year, and Cursor used the outage as cover to launch Origin, a GitHub competitor. Steve French, the longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 maintainer, died days after stepping down from the role he'd held since 2002. ## Content **TLDR:** Omarchy's rewrite and a new $8M foundation drew Michael Dell, Toby Lütke, and other checkbooks into the Linux desktop conversation, while Framework's Fedora preorders are outpacing Windows 10 to 1. Linus Torvalds spent a weekend debugging a one-character Intel Xe driver bug with an AI assistant that kept insisting the fix was impossible. GitHub went down for nearly eight hours as commit volume nearly doubled year over year, and Cursor used the outage as cover to launch Origin, a GitHub competitor. Steve French, the longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 maintainer, died days after stepping down from the role he'd held since 2002. --- ## DHH's Omarchy rewrite draws billionaire backers and an $8M foundation Omarchy 4.1 shipped Quattro, a from-scratch rewrite that cuts 17 dependencies, shrinks the ISO by 30%, and speeds up install by 40% (about 45 seconds on decent hardware). DHH also incorporated the Omakase Foundation with $8 million pledged to pay subsystem maintainers directly, including hiring Hyprland creator vaxry full-time, and a new sponsor foundation called Omacom is now the exclusive backer of Hyprland itself. Michael Dell, Toby Lütke, Patrick Collison, Matthew Prince, and Jack Dorsey are all reportedly involved with checkbooks, which is a strange sentence to type about a Linux distro. [Read more](https://daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=kqn9SZafF&id=qGNGdknyV&id=vryDDvXwX&id=sgBxhPLRR) ## Linus Torvalds debugs a one-character kernel bug while his AI assistant tries to quit A Battlemage GPU was crashing GDM into an endless black-screen loop, and it took Torvalds 24 debug patches and 18 kernel boots to trace it to a `round_up()` that should've been `round_down()` in the Intel Xe driver's flat CCS storage offset calculation. He used an AI assistant to grind through instrumentation and analysis passes across that iteration, and even let it write the final commit message, but the assistant repeatedly told him the bug was unsolvable. Separately, a viral tweet claims he personally fixed a different kernel bug an AI tool had also called impossible, so this appears to be a pattern, not a one-off. [Read more](https://daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=3zpBm2oif&id=szl8NKWkt) ## GitHub's near-eight-hour outage exposes how much bigger it's gotten GitHub went down for nearly eight hours on August 17 after critical infrastructure in a Central US data center couldn't scale under a new traffic peak. CTO Vlad Fedorov's postmortem cites monthly commits jumping from 1.4 billion in April to 2.9 billion now, with GitHub responding by adding 3 million CPU cores and 120 petabytes of storage while shifting 58% of platform load to Azure, up from 12% in May. Cursor used the moment to launch Origin, an early-stage Git hosting alternative built into its desktop client that syncs with GitHub repos and lets AI agents edit code directly, though it's missing basic things like a working repo search filter. [Read more](https://daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=OpTsgAFwe&id=OFJ2mcUiD&id=xfVZX0ahz) ## Steve French, Linux CIFS/SMB3 maintainer, dies days after stepping down French upstreamed the CIFS VFS client in 2002, letting Linux systems talk to Windows file shares, and kept building on that work for over two decades, including KSMBD, an in-kernel SMB server, all while working at Microsoft on Azure Storage. He stepped down as maintainer citing unspecified health reasons just days before he died. Paulo Alcantara and Namjae Jeon were already named as co-maintainers to carry the code forward, but as tributes from people like Jeremy Allison make clear, losing the person who spent two decades on that plumbing is its own kind of loss. [Read more](https://daily.dev/posts/Po7Pck1wZ) --- ## Also notable - **Framework's Fedora Laptop 12 preorders beat Windows 10 to 1:** On the new Wildcat Lake-powered Laptop 12, buyers are choosing the Fedora 44/KDE Plasma build over Windows 11 by more than ten to one in early preorders. [Read more](https://daily.dev/posts/G3IH69VIZ) - **Pine64 pauses Linux hardware production over DRAM shortages:** Pine64 is halting new SBC, tablet, e-reader, and phone production until at least mid-2027 because AI-driven DRAM and eMMC price spikes have made its hobbyist pricing model unworkable, though MCU-based devices like the Pinecil and PineTime are unaffected. [Read more](https://daily.dev/posts/7Ty3MwABP) - **Linux 7.3 scheduler rework nearly 7x's minimum FPS on a decade-old CPU/GPU combo:** Peter Zijlstra's 'flatten the pick' cgroup scheduling overhaul took minimum FPS in Shadows Awakening from 4 to 29 on a Sandy Bridge i7-2600K paired with an RX 580, alongside separate latency fixes that cut P99 preemption-disabled time from 16ms spikes down to about 1.5ms in production. [Read more](https://daily.dev/posts/yDm5CfA6m) - **China orders state agencies off Windows 10 ahead of schedule, moves to Kylin and Unity OS:** China's Ministry of State Security told state-linked entities to uninstall a customized Windows 10 build originally slated to retire in February 2027, replacing it with domestic Linux distros Kylin OS (FreeBSD-derived) and Unity OS (Deepin/Debian-derived). [Read more](https://daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=qxFDq9SMg&id=ozXpgU5wa) - **GCC patch nets a 12% benchmark win on Zen 5 by fixing branch misprediction cost tables:** An AMD-submitted GCC patch tripling the branch misprediction cost scale for Zen 4/Zen 5 yields a 12% gain on SPEC CPU's 544.nab_r benchmark for Zen 5 (9% for Zen 4), and is expected to land in GCC 17 with a possible GCC 16.3 backport. [Read more](https://daily.dev/posts/sTJ75P8ym) ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@pboling** · 0 upvotes > I see DHH I downvote. 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