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Just what we need, another Linux distribution. Spread the effort even more thinly. No thanks

• michaelmrose 7y ago
  Much of the work that goes into the open source software ecosystem goes into projects that benefit more than one particular platform be they user facing apps or system components. A minority goes into distributions. Distributions mainly require infrastructure, packaging, and distro specific software like package management. Many distros are quite derivative and represent largely Linux set up as the author desires. You see a lot of these because they are easy to make they also suck near zero resources from the broader pool of resources because they are stuck packaging their own software and the skills needed to make them wouldn't translate directly into improving system components anyway. More complex efforts which are the minority are the way people explore possible paths forward. Many are already increasingly converging on common patterns that make it easier to focus on the things that are truly important to that project. Complaining about a diversity of options seems poorly thought out when discussing a platform that exists only because others desired more options. Hell if we all standardized on redhat we might well be trading 10% more progress for 99% fewer options.
• alpaca128 7y ago
  "Fewer distros mean more active developers per distro" is just as much a fallacy as "Less music piracy means higher profits". Many distros exist exactly because their devs don't want to touch something like Ubuntu.