Post #2350394
2026-05-07 18:40 UTC
@jorge@hachyderm.io I've been developing software for GNU/Linux systems and managing production networks of those systems professionally since 1997, and not once in 30 years have I believed that distributions exist because developers are bad at distributing software.
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@gordonmessmer@fosstodon.org 2026-05-07 18:40
@jorge@hachyderm.io If there is a finger to be pointed, I think it is in the other direction entirely. The problem is that there is no coherent target platform. Free Software "platforms" are made up of hundreds (at least) of individual components that are terrible at maintaining backward compatibility, don't coordinate their release schedules, and don't even communicate their releases through a common channel. Often they don't have predictable release cadences OR maintenance windows.