The issue here was fully on the AUR’s PKGBUILDs. No upstream code involved.

as better alternative for these formats or is this just xkcd for package formats

It can be both. But in this case I see they reuse system libraries, which goes against the idea of ending dependency hell. Apart from that, I don’t see any advantage with respect to snap or flatpak.

Tried it for a bit, seems to be Arch-based, but pacman wasn’t installed. And it’s very much an alpha.

Also, there’s a warning if you don’t have 40GB free. That hurt.

Cathedral-style coding isn’t very Open-Source

Cathedral vs bazaar is about development process, nothing to do with source code availability.

Nah, git has a bad command line UX. Which is why the developers are working to make it better, i.e. moving from checkout to switch.

Aren’t the Olympics free?

Might be an issue with fonts?

Honestly, just use Debian. It can run under 200MB of RAM (default install), so it beats all distros on the list except for TinyCore and SliTaz, and it actually has packages.

I’ve seen many references to TCP/IP as meaning IP + everything-on-top, usually when talking about other networking technologies like UUnet, OSI, etc. Also as the TCP/IP stack, usually meaning the (Free)BSD networking code used in other systems.