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Other BSD and UNIX/UNIX-like Any other flavour of BSD or UNIX that does not have a section of its own. |
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Redhat / Centos | 24 | 15.09% | |
Suse | 4 | 2.52% | |
Debian | 36 | 22.64% | |
Slackware | 30 | 18.87% | |
Gentoo | 13 | 8.18% | |
Ubuntu | 23 | 14.47% | |
Others | 29 | 18.24% | |
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@carpetsmoker, well you could try too g4u, http://fehu.org/~feyrer/g4u/
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It also can't do things like resizing the filesystem or skipping files....
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My system runs Windows XP, Mepis (a Debian based), and Dragonfly BSD.
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Primary: Hackintosh 10.6 64bits/Linux from scratch 32bits.
Testbox: (currently) minix 3. |
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How many years must this thread drag on? The other forum has a similar one that's been 2 years running.
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Linux distros that I use are AntiX & SliTaz.
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Used to use Debian and have been a Slackware user until recently.
The former went with systemd, the latter is still one of the few saner Linux distributions out there and is the only Linux distro I would recommend to others. Debian's decision to go with systemd just confirmed my own suspicions that Red Hat have too much influence over the GNU/Linux eco system - and of course Canonical have too much influence over the Debian project itself. Despite developing their own init system, they were quick to also switch to systemd as soon as Debian made the announcement. The wider problem with GNU/Linux is that it's not just about free software and GNU anymore. That seems to have gone out of fashion. Corporations now play a much bigger role. It's interesting that the GPL licenses were supposed to be about freeing software entirely. But instead we've seen corporations simply owning or influencing the people and the projects themselves in order to control and manipulate the GPL software - (if they can't own it and close it off, then they steer it in whichever direction which suits them). systemd is just one example of a corporate backed putsch which is pretty much infesting everything. The BSD licenses. which have been criticised by some for being too permissive, at least allows the big corporations to take what they want and leave the FOSS projects alone (unless they want to throw some money their way or donate some hardware, etc). |
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You do not philosophically understand BSD licensing model which came out of academi and internal organization of BSDs at least until 1993. |
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Where did you get "85%"?
And what makes you say that based on what I posted? I only said that the BSD licenses were more "permissive" in that they are not copyleft, not as a any kind of criticism, just stating fact. I don't think that you should assume that you know what others understand / or not based on only a few forum posts... |
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I saw those statistics based upon Linux kernel git commits couple of years ago. I would be hard pressed to reproduce the source. I was very surprised with the fact that Debian and Canonical contribute very little to Linux kernel. As a matter of full disclosure I will state that when I have to use Linux I use only Red Hat derivatives but I honestly have no horse in Red Hat vs Debian race. My preference is not to use Linux whenever possible to use BSDs instead.
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The standard example of course is systemd. Many people feel the world would be a better place without it... More code does not equal a better system.
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As much as I'd like to blame Canonical for systemd, it's a Red Hat product. Canonical's similar init system was upstart, they have recently announced that they will be abandoning it and also jumping on the systemd bandwagon. |
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I intended 'canonical' as in the normal usage of the word, I wasn't referring to the company. I edited my previous post to remove any confusion.
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