<p>There is not a broad selection of mature, open-source web-browser engines for Linux users. Most of the browsers available for Linux are based on one of just three projects: Chromium's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(browser_engine)">Blink</a>, Firefox's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(software)">Gecko</a>, or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit">WebKit</a>. A new entrant would generally be seen as a welcome alternative, but the recent campaign to push one of the LLM-written <a href="https://nordstjernen.org/">Nordstjernen</a> browsers into <a href="https://debian.org/">Debian</a> and <a href="https://archlinux.org/">Arch Linux</a> has raised some questions about the project's development and security processes.</p>
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