DHH's Arch-based desktop becomes the latest front in FOSS's culture wars.
Much of Omarchy's success is due to the visibility of Hansson the man behind both the distro and the Ruby on Rails web framework.
In the short interval since then, Omarchy has had two more point releases and is now at version 4.0.3. The project has also announced Omarchy M, an initiative to bring the distro to Apple Silicon Macs, with support for older Intel models also planned. Even the website has been redesigned, with more internationalization – and an animation that follows the mouse pointer.
The Omacom Foundation says its pledges and donations have now reached about $18.5 million, a total that includes multiyear commitments and AI tokens.
Omarchy is already spending some of that money on people. Its first three announced hires are kernel developer Krzysztof Wilczyński, infrastructure head Emir Beganović, and the pseudonymous outfoxxed, creator of Quickshell, a core component of the Omarchy 4 interface.
Omarchy pointedly doesn't have a code of conduct; instead, it has a Doctrine, the first principle of which is "uniting the nerds."
Brennan Kenneth Brown set out the accusation in a post titled Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH.
The problem of open source developers not getting paid for their efforts is a persistent one in the FOSS world, and yet people and organizations are lining up to pledge money, or tokens, or both, to Omarchy.
XLibre upset some folks so much that one of the developers behind Alpine Linux launched the Wayback server sooner than planned, in response to XLibre.