Omarchy distro gains serious backing
OS PLATFORMS
Polarizing opinions while tech heavyweights put up $10M
The controversial Omarchy distro is attracting both criticism and fans – and financial support, too.
Omarchy is an opinionated respin of Arch Linux and a pet project of Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson, better known as DHH. Although the first release was as recent as June last year, this week sees the release of Omarchy 4.0.1 – a security fix for the mid-August Omarchy 4 “Quattro”.
Although it started out just over a year ago, Omarchy now has a sibling project Omakub, which is based on Ubuntu, and an organization behind it called Omacom. A week ago, DHH announced the launch of the Omacom Foundation with $8 million. Its founding patrons include figures behind Shopify, Stripe, Dell, Block, Cloudflare, Sesame, and 37signals - closely followedby people behind Dropbox and OpenClaw, taking the total...
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