On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 1:26 PM Pwillis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From my personal, outsider, view the ‘Distribution’ thing is a major
> bottleneck with the long term stability of Linux. Distributions dilute the
> focus on maintenence by dividing the available labour resource over a
> foolish duplication of tasks. This is usually a marketing thing of some
> kind (ie: Oracle Redhat fork, Ubuntu vs. Debian, Slack vs. Gentoo, CentOS
> vs. Redhat).
>

That point has been used for 25 years against Linux and 40+ against UNIX.
The worldwide dominance of UNIX and Linux says otherwise, as you mention in
your later reply. I'm surprised that with such a long history of being
nearly equivalent to "the sky is falling" it keeps being a point of
contention.