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Re: Slax: Live Pocket Linux

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Post by graemep »

unsungNovelty wrote: post #6
system7rocks wrote: post #2

I love the idea of this... but here is what I want - IT SHOULD WORK WITH EVERY HARDWARE PERMUTATION KNOWN TO EXISTENCE. If not... combine your energy with Fedora.

The IBM Red Hat Test horse which can ditch you at a second's notice like centos? No thanks. You should invest into a community run or community oriented distros like Arch, Gentoo, Alpine, Linux Mint etc. More over, each distro has its things. Why should Slax do that?

I do not agree with the parent, however the first part of your objection is not really valid. Red Hat were able to ditch Centos because they owned it. You canbase something independent on RH.

Re: Slax: Live Pocket Linux

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Post by dahngue »

You can also just literally install most any linux distro to a USB and use it the same way. It likely won't work on every machine, but it will work on most similar machines. I have done so for many years with archlinux

Re: Slax: Live Pocket Linux

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Post by LeFantome »

graemep wrote: post #11
unsungNovelty wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The IBM Red Hat Test horse which can ditch you at a second's notice like centos? No thanks. You should invest into a community run or community oriented distros like Arch, Gentoo, Alpine, Linux Mint etc. More over, each distro has its things. Why should Slax do that?

I do not agree with the parent, however the first part of your objection is not really valid. Red Hat were able to ditch Centos because they owned it. You canbase something independent on RH.

What drives me personally nuts about the CentOS saga is all the “community” hand-waving about creating a bit for bit clone of a distro.

There can be no “community just shipping builds of RHEL code as, by definition, you cannot change anything. That means you cannot contribute. In my view, an Open Source “community” cannot just be people that use things for free. It is supposed to be about collaborating to build things.

At least now we have Alma Linux which strives to be ABI compatible with RHEL but builds it themselves from CentOS Stream. They actually build something. They can actually contribute (and they do). They can innovate. For example, they have continued the x86-64v2 builds even though RHEL has abandoned them. On Alma, you can at least claim to be building a community.

I do not use any of these distros by the way, in case you think I am shilling something.

Re: Slax: Live Pocket Linux

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Post by carlwgeorge »

LeFantome wrote: post #13
graemep wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do not agree with the parent, however the first part of your objection is not really valid. Red Hat were able to ditch Centos because they owned it. You canbase something independent on RH.

What drives me personally nuts about the CentOS saga is all the “community” hand-waving about creating a bit for bit clone of a distro. There can be no “community just shipping builds of RHEL code as, by definition, you cannot change anything. That means you cannot contribute. In my view, an Open Source “community” cannot just be people that use things for free. It is supposed to be about collaborating to build thing…

It warms my heart to see someone else recognize this. The bug-for-bug model that classic CentOS Linux followed was fundamentally broken. Sure there were lots of consumers, but without the ability to fix bugs or accept contributions it was dysfunctional. The underlying motivation of the CentOS Stream changes was resolving this conflict, so that bugs can be fixed and contributions can be merged, resulting in a more sustainable distro.
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