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I know how loved Debian has been for the community and all that has been built on it but as a user I kind of always felt that Debian was always doing their own
by baldfat 8y ago
I know how loved Debian has been for the community and all that has been built on it but as a user I kind of always felt that Debian was always doing their own thing, at their own pace and their own requirements. Maybe this is a sign that that way of running a Linux community is over? We really have a fairly robust ecosystem and development has become much more refined? I might be missing the inner politics of the community that has caused this?
- zzzcpan 8y agoMaybe this is an effect linux ecosystem fragmentation of recent years has on communities.
- baldfat 8y agoI would say the opposite. Things have been consolidating in companies and in technologies. It used to be that you had 10 options for everything. Now things are getting more and more standardized. I like to think we are much better today in Linux than when we were 10 years ago. You use to pick out what applications were important and see what version was supported by what distro. That isn't a thing anymore.
- Steltek 8y agoCan you expand on your comment a bit? Maybe I've got rose colored glasses but I felt Linux had more of community feel ~10 years ago. When Ubuntu was ascendant but still had that scrappy feel, lots of Gentoo users were funrolling loops, and Red Hat wasn't owned by IBM. There's also the problem (IMHO) of OSX having pulled otherwise Linux-first developers away. I feel an especially heavy effect on desktop efforts like Wayland and Systemd. Some time since then, things went a bit "weird".
- linuxftw 8y agoI think the linux community is now less about the distro, and more about what runs on the distro. The latest trends in software development (containers, kubernetes) are just moving too fast for Debian to keep up, IMO. I think we're going to see the rise of 'purpose-built kubernetes' distros.