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   josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 12:35:55 JST josef

   the problem is i think. if a linux distro was actually good enough, it would annihilate all the other distros. and that would go against the whole point of there being distros. so theyre not allowed to make a distro thats good. they're not allowed to be like "look we're actually gonna do it this time, we're gonna make the one true linux", they'd get tomatoes thrown at them. they can only make a distro thats "okay, but then in 5 years it Goes Wrong and everybody hops to the next popular distro"

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     smxi (smxi@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 12:35:54 JST smxi

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     @jk the reason there are different distros is they meet different needs.

     RHEL: corporate linux

     Fedora: unpaid dev for rhel

     Arch: true rolling, minimal package changes from upstream

     #Slackware you are expert, want vanilla upstream, patrick v. BDFL

     #Debian install once run forever. Really. Sid/testing semi-rolling
     Ubuntu: swahili for "can't install debian"

     TinyCore: 26 MiB full OS install to RAM. Really.

     #Alpine very groovy tech

     Mint: new user choice 1

     SLED/SUSE: Not rh

     And so on.

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     hanshi (rvyhvn@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 12:46:33 JST hanshi

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     • smxi

     @smxi @al1r4d @jk wdyt about void?