Never ceases to amaze me. There is all kinds of things wrong with Debian I am sure. But at the end of the day, what that community does is mindblowingly impressive.
Much gratitude from a Slink-and-a-half user, back in the day.
Much gratitude from a Slink-and-a-half user, back in the day.
If you go also by how much those distris are used it's even like 9x% of the stuff running out there is Debian based.
There are almost no independent distris. You have Arch, you have SUSE, you have RedHat and a few clones, you have Gentoo. But more or less everything else is Debian based.
But I'm not sure Slackware is still at this point relevant enough to be named in a row with the others I've mentioned.
Of course the sampling was subjective, and I didn't intended to marginalize any not mentioned distris. I just thought the others are too niche to be included in such kind of pick.
Here a list of almost all the OS distris I've left out:
https://distrowatch.com/search.php?ostype=All&category=All&o...
Besides mentioning Slackware for historical reasons I should have also mentioned NixOS, which I forgot.
The former was the first Linux distri, the later gained some respectable user-base in the last years, I think.
Ah, and there is also Alpine which you can see sometimes here and there. (People using it in containers for reasons I've never understood as that's imho a recipe for trouble.)
But if you look at the rest of the list most of the stuff is really obscure. (I've tried some Solaris derivatives and Exherbo in the past but didn't even heard of all the other names.)
Musl is still a kind of experiment. I would not recommend running experiments in production…
Just a few random links:
https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/benchmarking-debian-vs-alpine...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28312433
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/musl-libc-alpines-greatest-we...
https://martinheinz.dev/blog/92
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/mu...
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/729342/performance-...
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/70108
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23080290
https://vector.dev/highlights/2020-07-09-add-musl-and-glibc-...
There are more. Much more of those!
Musl exist in large parts just for ideological reasons. It still rides some hype in industry as industry hates GPL software…
marpstar was correct.
I am a Debian fanboi since Slink. Since it was drilled into me by rvdm, ssmeenk, miquels, jdassen and dth.
And have seen Debian survive and thrive a lot of critisism. "Too slow release cycle, not Free(Dom) enough, Too free, systemd, too much politics, too many architectures, etc....etc....etc.."
Yes, any large community will be flawed and deliver flawed solutions. And I for one celebrate those flaws and features, and appreciate the sheer magnitude and accomplishment of this enormous, complex, great project.