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Linux Insider investigates why some Linux distros just disappear

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It's simple, really. (Score: 5, Insightful)

by foobarbazbot@pipedot.org on 2014-02-25 18:11 (#6C)

For your distro to last, you need one of two approaches:
  1. one dictator who's such a tough son-of-a-bitch that he not only can defy ordinary counting sequences but also survives mysterious illnesses that every doctor misdiagnoses.
  2. lots of people, and a sufficiently robust community governance model to make any of them expendable.

The distros that have followed one of these models have outlasted every distro that hasn't.

Re: It's simple, really. (Score: 2, Informative)

by wjwlsn@pipedot.org on 2014-02-25 23:14 (#6G)

Ha, what a brilliant description of Slackware... still my favourite distro, and so much better than SLS.

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