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I'd rather use my own choice of Linux distro running what I need rather than a baked together mix of stuff with a dodgy site that's been hacked together quickly without QA!
Is this some kind of high school project?
Maybe this needs a separate thread but for a long time now, there have only really been 5 (or 6 depending on who you ask) upstream distros, Debian, Fedora/RH, Gentoo, Opensuse, Slackware, Ubuntu. I get the reason for offshoot distros to exist but I can't help thinking that a lot of the time it would just make more sense to publish a script to add packages/modify the default configuration, rather than Just-Another-New…
As always the problem is in the possibilities: The different systems (both distros and user installs) are so differently configured, that a script most certainly will mess it all up.
The best solution I can see (at least for my use) is to expand the dotfile-approach to encompass applications and more advanced settings too. But I guess it has certain security a related issues?
- Is it a standalone distro?
- What is the kernel version?
- How about 3rd-party packages, drivers, etc?
And the most important
- Why do I have to use it instead of another well-known distros like Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora?
No download links to be found on the Downloads page with places left blank for Dropbox and Mega links.
Surely any of the mainstream distros are just as good or better for this purpose and the tools can be simply installed in minutes with apt, Synaptic, Yum, etc. Is this some kind of high school project?
> Includes Most of Popular Programming Languages Compilers, top Editors and best Integrated Development Environments.
so basically
$ sudo apt install gcc npm python3 emacs24
Maybe this needs a separate thread but for a long time now, there have only really been 5 (or 6 depending on who you ask) upstream distros, Debian, Fedora/RH, Gentoo, Opensuse, Slackware, Ubuntu. I get the reason for offshoot distros to exist but I can't help thinking that a lot of the time it would just make more sense to publish a script to add packages/modify the default configuration, rather than Just-Another-New…
In fact, we have 3 :)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snappy_(package_manager)
I feel like a distro with lots of extra things installed from the start is the opposite of a distro for programmers, as is baking in some off-brand voice tool. The perfect distro for me would be an OSX (not MacOS) clone running on a debian backend without the walled garden that is Apple.
Elementary OS
I don't really understand the rationale, but hey whatever floats your boat
Maybe this needs a separate thread but for a long time now, there have only really been 5 (or 6 depending on who you ask) upstream distros, Debian, Fedora/RH, Gentoo, Opensuse, Slackware, Ubuntu. I get the reason for offshoot distros to exist but I can't help thinking that a lot of the time it would just make more sense to publish a script to add packages/modify the default configuration, rather than Just-Another-New…
This so much. The only time i see it making sense to release a full-blown distro is for marketing reasons or making a more unified aesthetic experience like for example Elementary (which certainly has its own issues, but that is another story) or for a very specific purpose like Kali or Tails. There are, however, a jungle of different software and solutions out there so sometimes I appreaciate a "curated" list of de…
Elementary is a good example of where some kind of advanced script/package setup could possibly replicate what the developers have done.
What you mention regarding extending the idea of dotfiles to encompass applications/settings is exactly what I'm hoping will start happening rather than this saturation of distros that don't necessarily bring a lot to the table. As for security issues, yes that's always going to be a concern when you add new packages, but no reason why there couldn't be some improved process in place to let users know when they are straying off the path.