[xubuntu-users] Are *Ubuntu Based Distro's Dying?

[Steve Litt]

On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 18:15:13 -0500
Eric Christopherson <echristopherson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 06, 2015, Steve Litt wrote:
> > Another legitimate question is whether Debian will die. The recent
> > systemd kerfuffel caused a loss of a lot of their community's
> > members with tech chops, and some of their developers. I don't see
> > Debian dying in the near future, but it would be interesting to see
> > what Canonical would do if there were no more Debian. I'm pretty
> > sure Canonical has plenty of tech muscle to go it alone.
> 
> I'm not sure that will be an issue in a few years -- Ubuntu is rolling
> their own package system called Snappy now:
> https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/#tour
> 

Ugh. "Clouds" and  "devices" interest me not a bit. I need a full sized
keyboard and monitor to write books, and I'll never put my data
anywhere but my hard disk, my backup server, and my backup Blu-Rays.

That being said, maybe "Clouds" and "devices" are just marketing
come-ons like "Magnesium Paddle Shifter", and maybe it works great on a
local computer, in which case, snappy is always good, and the ability
to rollback is good too.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
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