Another Linux Distro Is Shutting Down (neowin.net)
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- News link: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/08/15/1536230/another-linux-distro-is-shutting-down
- Source link: https://www.neowin.net/news/sad-news-another-linux-distro-is-shutting-down/
> Kaisen Linux, a Debian-based distro packed with tools for sysadmins, system rescue, and network diagnostics, is [1]shutting down . This comes not long after Intel's Clear Linux also [2]reached the end of the road.
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> Kaisen offered multiple desktop environments like KDE Plasma, LXQt, MATE, and Xfce, plus a "toram" mode that could load the whole OS into RAM so you could free up your USB port. The final release, Rolling 3.0, updates the base to Debian 13, defaults to KDE Plasma 6, replaces LightDM with SDDM, drops some packages like neofetch and hping3, and adds things like faster BTRFS snapshot restores, full ZFS support, and safer partitioning behavior.
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> Unlike Clear Linux, Kaisen will still get security updates for the next two years, giving current users time to migrate without rushing.
[1] https://www.neowin.net/news/sad-news-another-linux-distro-is-shutting-down/
[2] https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/07/19/0016204/intel-kills-clear-linux-os-as-support-ends-without-warning
Distros too specific (Score:2)
This is why I love Devuan (and used to Debian) because it's not specifically focused on anything. Maybe on the truly open source software but there's still the non-free apt option.
For me it matches simplicity the best, and it seems it's one of the best traits for a long-living distro.
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That's not a purpose, aka a focus, it's a method.
And 5 more popped up? (Score:2)
I mean, seriously ...
Proliferation of distros is not a sign of vigor. (Score:2)
Part of the reason that Linux has troubles competing with the commercial operating systems for mind share is that once things are to a prosumer level of fit and finish, people start spending effort on minor respins to build semi-custom distros to target specific market segments. This is great for prosumer users who enjoy tinkering around to get a perfect fit, but it doesn't stack up into a strong offering for casual users, because often each respin is backed by one or six people who don't have time to prop
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So use Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, or (possibly) SUSE.
I don't like Gnome, but if you want what somebody else chose for you, just pick the defaults. (Personally , I use either Mate or xfce.)
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It's like OP's point went right over your head.
Person 1: "I don't know what to use!"
Person 2: "so use Red Hat, Debaian, Ubuntu, or possibly SUSE
Person 1: "I'll just use Windows then".
I'm fine with this. (Score:2)
Honestly, more distributions that have no reason to exist and no distinguishing traits should shut down. The people that worked on them should move to projects that aren't just rehashes of existing projects.
When your eulogy can't come up with a way to describe you in any meaningful way, your life nor death were worthy of celebration or remembering.
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I'd agree; there is too much fragmentation. If we really want "the year of the Linux desktop", then we need no more than 2 major distros (ignoring the small specialty ones for embedded systems and such). Yeah, I don't think its going to happen; but it'd be nice if we did.
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For the desktop there's kindof already that.
Want easy, polished .deb based? Mint (either flavor) or Ubuntu
Want easy, polished .rpm based? Fedora (KDE version) or OpenSUSE
Those four are the ones that work great out of the box, and easy to Google for things requiring tweaking, and have huge package libraries
Niche leads to mainstream via osmosis (Score:2)
This has happened many times over the decades. Osmosis (mostly!) results in the better changes trickling back into mainstream linux distributions.
My least/most favorite example of this is Stormix Linux.
It was based on Debian, back in 1999. It was geared towards a simplified desktop experience and introduced a lot of new things, at the time: graphical installer that detected hardware (and had a broad set of hardware support not found elsewhere); GUI apt manager; and a number of other really clean add ons tha
Good (Score:2)
Good, the more distro's die, the better, because that's exactly what's wrong with Linux, too many flavors. The less flavors, the better they can concentrate on what really matters. In this case it's rather more about sysadmin tools as I gather, but that's the whole point, having a complete different distro just because it contains a specific set of tools is just ridiculous, the tools themselves are what is important, not the distro. So having a better 'application store' or something like that, where you ca
What if? (Score:2)
I'm not a Linux expert, and not aware of all the different distros and why they exist, so if my question makes no sense, please nail only ONE of my balls to the wall, and leave the other unscathed.
With that disclaimer, on to my question.
What if there was one "standard" distribution, whatever one that is. Let's just say "Debian" for the sake of argument.
Then, for anyone who feels there is a market niche for something different or specialized, they package those customization as something that installs "on to
That's good (Score:2)
It is beyond me why so many out there seem to be so keen on having their own Linux distribution, which for the most part is likely to be little more than one of the three or four major ones with some eye candy.
Who cares about this? Drop in the bucket. (Score:2)
This little known bistro shutting down, no news.
As far as the ref to Clear Linux to make it seem like the sky is falling ... Intel is failing generally so their special distro getting axed isn't a surprise and honestly with 200+ other distros ... doesn't matter.
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Clear Linux also largely completed its "mission". It test cased, field tested, etc, optimizations for modern x86 silicon (even for AMD). Now mainstream distros have implemented some of the heavy hitting implementations and bridged the performance gap, leaving little reason for Clear to exist.
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Sure, go ahead - keep your head in the sand if that makes you happy. But, if this keeps up, at some point in the future you might wake up and find there are only 99 Linux Distros to choose from! But then it'll be too late...