XPost: alt.os.linux.mint   
   From: nomail@hotmail.com   
      
   On 10/4/22 18:07, Mike Easter wrote:   
   > Edmund wrote:   
   >> Great, always good to see some linux lunatic who invents a wheel   
   >> again. After all we never can have enough incompatible releases or   
   >> enough useless work.   
   >   
   > Most linux users don't agree w/ your point of view about there being too   
   > many distributions, too much choice in desktops, or too little   
   > compatibility between the packaging.   
      
   Sure and precisely that brought us in the chaos we are in today.   
      
   >   
   > There is a solution to your 'problem';   
      
   What "problem" are you making up that I should have?   
      
   > select a base and a desktop   
   > (compare that to selecting Win or Mac) and 'stick w/' that selection and   
   > 'ignore' all of the other varieties.   
      
   Hmm that would be like Linus Torvalds does isn't it,   
   well guess what? :-)   
   >   
   > I recently saw this statement in an article by a writer arguing against   
   > the inclusion of Rust as an element in linux kernel dev:   
   >   
   >> Linux has consistently enjoyed a tremendous amount of attention from   
   >> the software development community. This week’s release of Linux 6.0,   
   >> one of the largest Linux releases ever, boasted more than 78,000   
   >> commits by almost 5,000 different authors since 5.15. Linux has a   
   >> broad developer base reaching from many different industry   
   >> stakeholders and independent contributors working on the careful   
   >> development and maintenance of its hundreds of subsystems. The scale   
   >> of Linux development is on a level unmatched by any other software   
   >> project — free software or otherwise.   
   >   
   > There's a *reason* linux attracts all of that dev.   
      
   I'm sure there is.   
   >   
   > And Endeavor isn't reinventing the wheel.  Arch is a great base; XFCE is a   
   fine desktop, EOS is a good distro.   
      
   So? what is it your trying to say, in the current zillion releases   
   there are no good ones yet?   
      
   No doubt then, this one will be the last LOL.   
      
   Edmund   
      
      
      
      
   --   
   “The further  a society drifts from the truth,   
   the more it will hate those who speak it”   
      
   George Orwell   
      
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