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by secstate 4614 days ago
Amen. I can't believe what people do for free, and that OSS has taken off at all. While there's room in this world for all kinds, my soul dies a little when someone comments, "wow, kids these days are so smart with computers!" While they watch them install iPhoto off the App Store.

It's not true, but there will always be awesome people with awesome ideas and be willing to share them with the community. It's like http://bedrocklinux.org/ Damned if I need to use it, but it's awesome that someone is pushing boundaries like that. Or CoreOS, or Docker, or Debian, or Sugar (OLPC)... It just goes on. Be a hacker, and enjoy life. Loud people are everywhere, but it's the quiet ones in the corner doing the cool work.
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jff 4614 days ago
For example, if you would like your system to be mostly stable and unchanging, like Debian or a Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone, but would like access to cutting-edge packages from Arch, Bedrock Linux can provide this simultaneously and transparently.

Does... not... compute. If you want your system to be stable and unchanging, why would you care about the most cutting-edge packages? Those are the buggy ones, the reason Arch was always breaking my libraries or fucking up GRUB. Debian stable is stable because the packages in it have been tested as they made their way through "unstable" and "testing". If you want cutting-edge Debian packages, you run "testing"--that's basically the Arch experience, down to the periodic fuckups.

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nknighthb 4614 days ago
It would compute If you explored a little further than the front page, or even carefully considered the meaning of "bedrock".

http://bedrocklinux.org/introduction.html#what_bedrock_does

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jff 4614 days ago
"And you thought getting support for your distro was hard now, we've provided n! combinations of software for you"
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telephonetemp 4613 days ago
That should be n^m where n is the number of packages and m is the number of distributions (for software that's common to all distributions).

And anyhow, perhaps it would easier get support this way since you could get each software package to run in the distro where it's the easiest and then set them up to interact over IP like they would in containers.

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