CrunchBang Is The Latest Linux Distribution Calling It Quits

[gilboa]

So progress is Corporations like Red Hat imposing systemd to crush other alternative distros to Fedora and Red Hat? Buying Centos to changing his proupose to not be red hat alternative? Sure, the progress is more like Getting walmarks on your town crushing local and small businnes atended by his owners yep. Embrace the progress. Embrace systemd. Embrace Red Hat.

Read my lips, SLOWLY, CentOS uses RHEL SRPMS (sources) and recompiles them while trying to maintain binary compatibility. This means, my dear troll, that if RedHat uses GNOME 3, systemd or any other technology your-trollhod dislikes, CentOS will use the *same* SRPM (source), recompile it and use it *as is*. [1]

Congrats for getting my vote in your nomination as next year's village idiot.

- Gilboa
[1] https://www.centos.org/about/

"Since March 2004, CentOS Linux has been a community-supported distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by Red Hat. As such, CentOS Linux aims to be functionally compatible with RHEL."

[Delgarde]

how CentOS is not RHEL alternative anymore? CentOS is still 1:1 RHEL and still free, just as it was. the only thing that changed is lower delays to updates

CentOS was never really an "alternative" anyway... it's major selling point was that it was 99.9% identical to RHEL, but completely free of cost. If it had diverged too much, they would have lost users...

[dungeon]

For another great lite distro there's AntiX and for those who like Debian Sid there's Semplice. They are solid distros in their own right and can ideally replace #!

Only that #! is/was all about crunchified Debian stable.

For unstable users there are plenty of playground distros, but it can be also only one which "Holding the world record with over 100 different editions and 70 window managers!"

http://linuxbbq.org/

At least i like how they show what is nonsense of installers

[DeepDayze]

For another great lite distro there's AntiX and for those who like Debian Sid there's Semplice. They are solid distros in their own right and can ideally replace #!

[dungeon]

There's almost always room for improvement or bugs to be fixed in projects and you usually need update such projects like Openbox to maintain compatibility with newer libraries and other build dependencies, or even take advantage of new features of the libraries. There doesn't always have to be major functional changes

Does it not work somewhere?

Also, was the twitter screenshot really necessary, especially the fact that it was of the whole window?

That is original screenshot size (not mine), if one user uses wayland on phone and need to side scrolling because of the size i am really sorry about that.

[Ouroboros]

Ha, ha, dead Do you know what is an official credo for Openbox, that is a feature not a bug

There's almost always room for improvement or bugs to be fixed in projects and you usually need update such projects like Openbox to maintain compatibility with newer libraries and other build dependencies, or even take advantage of new features of the libraries. There doesn't always have to be major functional changes

Also, was the twitter screenshot really necessary, especially the fact that it was of the whole window?

[dungeon]

OpenBox is dead, though you might see a minor release fixing a few bugs once every few years

Ha, ha, dead Do you know what is an official credo for Openbox, that is a feature not a bug

[dungeon]

+1 to trolls needing to STFU about systemd in this topic. It's completely unrelated and users could use alternatives like Gentoo or Devuan if they find it objectionable.

You can use Debian without systemd still, corenominal won't to a job around systemd for #! - that is true .

The #! lead developer is recommending that its users transition to vanilla Debian and use tasksel/metapackages to quickly build a minimal system. That gives users more choice without them needing to completely customize package selection.

I am an openbox user on Debian years before someone maded lxde around it and might be even before corenominal... at least no one needs to tell me that i do that 12 years ago and now too

SystemD divided community that is, i don't care if it is good (or how usefull it is) or not.

[DanL]

+1 to trolls needing to STFU about systemd in this topic. It's completely unrelated and users could use alternatives like Gentoo or Devuan if they find it objectionable.

The #! lead developer is recommending that its users transition to vanilla Debian and use tasksel/metapackages to quickly build a minimal system. That gives users more choice without them needing to completely customize package selection.

It's pretty obvious that his argument was that #! doesn't fill a gap anymore, really. It was just debian with some defaults changed. The omissions plus the sensationalized title grants Michael the "shittiest journalist of the year" award.

What article did you read? The article is mostly a quote, which makes it very clear that the lead dev feels the gap has narrowed and has since been filled by other initiatives in upstream Debian. There's nothing wrong with the title either. Phoronix certainly has its share of sensational/clickbait articles and titles (see the recent one about Hurd), but this isn't one of them.

[dungeon]

Shut up.

Thank you.