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How is fragmentation a "big problem"? There are like what, four distros? - Debian and *buntu - Red Hat - Fedora - Suse All of them use systemd. All use X11 or
by diffeomorphism 7y ago
How is fragmentation a "big problem"?
There are like what, four distros?
- Debian and *buntu
- Red Hat
- Fedora
- Suse
All of them use systemd. All use X11 or wayland. All package gnome. All DEs, WMs etc. are available on all these distros.
Smaller distros can reuse whatever is available for that distros, see for example chrome or skype.
- knocte 7y ago5 distros is not fragmentation? seriously? so much facepalm
- diffeomorphism 7y agoTry actually reading what I wrote and not attacking straw men.
- mruts 7y agoWhat do you mean reuse whatever is available? Non derivative distros are going to be using their own package manager and not just using some prebuilt package for another system. But regardless, I agree, fragmentation isn't really a problem. It would be very rare indeed for some software to only work on some distro but not another. And if this was the case, you could probably change it with enough work (swap out libc or whatever).
- diffeomorphism 7y agoI mean for example this: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=google-chrome https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=googl... Google only packages chrome as .deb and .rpm, but you can still get it on other distros anyways.