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1) Support Gentoo, Alpine and *BSD, especially with code and/or donations.

2) Support alternatives such as sysvinit, openrc, eudev with code and/or donations.

3) Support minimalist and console userspace software such as busybox, sysvinit, feh, fbpdf, support window managers that are still independent of *kit, support any platforms that big tech have no use of.

4) Encourage projects to stay independent of systemd, udev and, if possible, dbus too, although the dbus and udev battles are practically lost at this point.

5) Watch out for new dependencies being added to important projects such as xorg, gtk, qt, mesa, etc. and actively resist/oppose them.

6) Contribute to libraries that fake systemd/udev/dbus presence in a system and allow compiling dependent packages without actually having those packages installed.

7) Support mentainance of linux console! Fight to keep stuff such as scrollback buffer in the linux kernel.

8) If you really have lots of time, contribute to alternatives that sabotage big tech, such as ReactOS, OpenOffice, GIMP, etc.

  And most importantly,
9) When you make a new website, support basic browsers without javascript (links, lynx, dillo, netsurf).

10) When you make a new app, make it available as a download outside of a OS shop/market app.






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