Yeah, I know. I make it seem more grave than it is maybe. Having used Linux since 1995-ish I have seen it progress from relative obscurity into the mainstream. In retrospect, it would seem there has been a lot of duplication of effort. I guess maybe that’s just the ‘ecosystem’ of choice. > On Feb 2, 2020, at 3:11 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote: > > Note that all these parallel maintainers feed their work back into the main trees. So all distros nominally get the benefits of each others' efforts. > > {^_^}