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Ghostty Terminal Emulator Transitions to Non-Profit Status (linuxiac.com)

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Mitchell Hashimoto, one of the founders of HashiCorp and lead developer behind Ghostty, a GPU-accelerated open-source terminal emulator launched in 2023, announced that the app has formally become a non-profit project through fiscal sponsorship by Hack Club, a registered 501(c)(3) organization.

In Ghostty’s case, Hack Club now manages compliance, donations, accounting, and public financial transparency. Hashimoto says this structure reinforces Ghostty’s commitment to remaining free and open source, provides legal assurances to users and contributors, and establishes a sustainable foundation beyond any single individual’s involvement.

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 38 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Someone explained to me once why a GPU-accelerated terminal emu might be useful, but I can't recall what you might use that for. Anyone have an example of what a good use case would be?

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's just faster and smoother when scrolling text, and all the work of shifting those pixels is pushed off onto specialized hardware that's much more efficient at it. I use alacritty which is a different GPU-accelerated terminal emulator and I'm very fond of it. It's not a huge deal, I just figure that if I have the hardware, I might as well use it.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 8 points 1 week ago

Oh, that makes sense. It also makes more sense why it's called "Alacritty," now.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How much VRAM does alacritty use? On my machine, nvidia-smi reports 6MiB for konsole, which I'm seems to be some default reserved by Qt apps (eg dolphin reports the same amount)

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 3 points 1 week ago

Most of my open terminals are using 9 MiB, although one is using 17.

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