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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: List of 787 MS products
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:08:46 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-10-30, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2024-10-30 2:46 a.m., RonB wrote:
>> On 2024-10-29, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> On 2024-10-29 3:08 a.m., RonB wrote:
>>>> On 2024-10-28, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>>>> On 2024-10-28 12:48 p.m., DFS wrote:
>>>>>> On 10/26/2024 9:30 AM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Le 24-10-2024, DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> a écrit :
>>>>>>>>     From
>>>>>>>> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/export/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Let say that the major part of this list is only different versions of
>>>>>>> the same product. I'll try o remember that when you say there are too
>>>>>>> many Linux distros.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Right now distrowatch lists 165 active x86_64 desktop Linux distros.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But 8-10 distros make up 90% of Linux desktop users.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What's the lesson here?
>>>>>
>>>>> People fork for the sake of forking rather than to improve anything.
>>>>
>>>> The lesson? Linux is open source and people are free do what they want with
>>>> it. No justification needed for forking it.
>>>>
>>>> Choice is good.
>>>
>>> It is great in theory, but everyone seems to want to have their own
>>> distribution so rather than working together for a common goal, they're
>>> working apart. Theoretically, the improvements go into the same pool no
>>> matter what but I wonder if they actually do.
>> 
>> It's great in practice. I don't WANT everyone working for a common goal, or
>> a single distribution. One distribution could be controlled by one group of
>> people. One distribution could more easily be attacked with an exploit. The
>> so-called "weakness" in Linux (too many distributions) is to me its
>> strength. It's how it says completely open source.
>> 
>> Choice is good.
>
> I'm noticing that a lot of people who think the way you and I do have 
> lost confidence in Linux and have started to move toward other projects 
> like Serenity, BSD, Haiku and now RiscOS. Linux is starting to smell as 
> bad as Marx did so some people with traditional values who also hate 
> proprietary software are opting to jump ship.

I'm guessing you didn't look up Serenity or RiscOS. Serenity has to be 
compiled in Linux and it runs in QEMU (as a virtual machine). RiscOS is 
designed for Raspberries and other small ARM CPU, one board computers. 

Serenity touts a 1990s style desktop with a late 2000s Linux vibe. I'm 
trying to figure out why that's even a "thing." 

But if people want it, that's their choice and they're welcome to it. 

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien