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Manjaro Linux Just Made A Massive Announcement About Its Future
Since 2011, Arch Linux-based Manjaro has focused on being a simple-to-use, accessible Linux desktop distribution with a friendly community. Manjaro has become widely available with multiple desktop environments, usable on multiple chipsets, has enjoyed partnerships with both hardware and software companies, and quickly risen up as a respected and popular choice for desktop Linux users. But as of today, Manjaro Linux is no longer just a Linux distribution -- it's officially transforming into a company with ambitious plans for its future.
[...]The announcement happened just hours ago, via Manjaro developer Philip Müller. It's not the catchiest name, but the advantages to this move seem beneficial to the both the Manjaro project and the community using it.
Müller says that for quite some time he's been researching "ways to secure the project in its current form and how to allow for activities which can't be undertaken as a 'hobby project.'" Crucially, he and the team wanted to reach new heights and be able to invest considerably more time into the project, without compromising the way its currently operating.
To that end, the Manjaro team is announcing the formation of an established company, Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG, "to enable full-time employment of maintainers and exploration of future commercial opportunities." They'll also be taking on Blue Systems -- a German IT company specializing in Free and Libre software -- as an advisor.
Additionally, the team will transfer the ownership of all donations -- and the allocation of donations -- to fiscal hosts CommunityBridge and OpenCollective, which will both secure donations and make their use transparent. And transparency is always welcome.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday September 09 2019, @11:35AM (7 children)
Will it be groundbreaking, or rather.... Canonical?
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @11:47AM (6 children)
My friend tried linux and said the OS let her look at nazi content.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Bot on Monday September 09 2019, @12:16PM (5 children)
I thought the chauvinism of Manjaro were apparent.
First of all, had it been inclusive, it would have been named PERSONjaro.
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday September 09 2019, @12:28PM (1 child)
Shit! Here I've been thinking I was using Mandingo Linux!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandingo_(film) [wikipedia.org]
Manjaro? What the hell is a Manjaro?
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by inertnet on Monday September 09 2019, @02:21PM
It sounds a bit like French 'manger' to me, so Manjaro may eat anything.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @01:05PM (2 children)
PERDESCENDENTjaro.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday September 09 2019, @01:17PM (1 child)
PERDIFFERENTLYASCENDENTCONTAINERo
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(Score: 3, Funny) by bzipitidoo on Monday September 09 2019, @06:57PM
Manjailbreako. I wish.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @12:22PM (9 children)
You already have Linux installed on 86% of phones worldwide. You got your world domination already. Stop being greedy.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by barbara hudson on Monday September 09 2019, @12:39PM (5 children)
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @12:54PM (4 children)
Barbara Hudson? I thought you left.
See subject, stop weaseling your way out of the undeniable fact that Linux is everywhere today.
And did you update your HOSTS FILE when you upgraded your Linux kernel??!
APK
(Score: 1) by barbara hudson on Tuesday September 10 2019, @01:02AM (2 children)
I was talked into staying. I agree that the fact you can no longer post walls of spam was sufficient.
Moderation here works differently - get enough spam posts and your IP is banned. Looks like you've wrecked your last site. And slashdot seems to be doing much better without you.
You spent weeks hunting me down. You're a sick stalker who needs to get a job.
And of course you'll never be able to live down your begging not to be banned from ars 20 years ago because you were a sicko back then. [soylentnews.org]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 11 2019, @09:46PM
Doesn't look like spam to me barb. It looks like you doing a huge tech flop vs. APK https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=33430&page=1&cid=889582#commentwrap and you admitting you stalked him by unidentifiable anonymous like the loser you proved you are lunatic nutjob.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 12 2019, @04:04PM
He was trying to stop a fight at arstechnica. He annihilated them in the end. You started one with him and lost very badly admitting you stalked apk and you blundered on technical information regarding C and C++ issues in security or speed against Pascal. How odd you omit all that you ridiculous clown that even fools itself that you are a real woman when you are a chemically altered clown and nothing more.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 10 2019, @02:40AM
You are way too coherent to be the real APK.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @12:55PM
Android uses linux as their backend for Evil but phones are not the geek Utopia that could have been with Maemo.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Freeman on Monday September 09 2019, @03:31PM
Hahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahhaha!
No.
The bastardized version of Linux that's on Google/Android devices has much more in common with Apple OS, than it does to a proper Linux distribution.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 4, Interesting) by stretch611 on Monday September 09 2019, @03:35PM
Actually, linux dominates in the publicly accessible internet servers [wikipedia.org] as well. Between 67% and 97% based on who you listen too. And this comes directly at Micorsoft's loss. (around 10-12 years ago, Microsoft had between 40-50% of this market to unix/linux share of 50-60%.
Also, since 2017, the top 500 Supercomputers [wikipedia.org] all run linux. The last 2 non-linux holdouts were 2 AIX (unix based) supercomputers.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday September 09 2019, @12:30PM
I hope.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Common Joe on Monday September 09 2019, @05:05PM (9 children)
If they are a company, can they be bought out sometime in the future by one of the big boys?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @09:55PM
That is the idea. Isn't it?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Monday September 09 2019, @10:46PM (6 children)
That might be the idea.
They might just be a bunch of geeks who want to be their own boss and make a living off Linux.
I hope they make a million bucks.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by barbara hudson on Tuesday September 10 2019, @01:21AM (5 children)
They don't have to appear to have an idea of what a business is, if they think that (as per their bullet points) that they want to be professional.
Creating a corporation doesn't make magic pixie dust that blesses everything it touches with professionalism. Professionalism is knowledge+execution, not a corporate charter.
Also, never heard of it before. Becoming a corporation doesn't suddenly get you mindshare or credibility.
Going corporate helps with going after government contracts (as per Mandriva) but it doesn't guarantee anything, and Mandrake (Mandriva's predecessor) was one of the best distros way back in the day. It was on Linux cover disks (Maximum Linux, etc), and did what people using Win31 expected when their computers got hit by viruses.
Today? There are far more choices, and they're all going after the same 1% of the user market. More fragmentation is the last thing linux distros need.
A 2-part-time-worker distro is a hobby distro. I haven't seen any argument put forward to them as to why anyone should back them financially instead of Arch, the distro they're based off. Ditto for deciding as to which to use.
Incorporation is easy - just pay a lawyer to file the paperwork and pay the fees. Running a successful business isn't that easy, and if you're counting on the fact that you're now a corporation to suddenly make things happen like magic you're either inexperienced of intentionally deluded.
Just based on the foregoing I wouldn't even be interested in downloading it to try it as a live-distro-on-a-memory-stick. A big announcement, but not a single feature that piques interest? That's a big WTF right there.
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(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday September 10 2019, @02:29AM (4 children)
It looks like being second on the Distrowatch page hit ranking table does not confer quite as much fame as I thought it did. :-)
It is a start.
They might wind up the next Redhat, or as you say, they might go the way of Mandrake. Time will tell.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Tuesday September 10 2019, @03:19AM (1 child)
Page hits are a shitty way to count popularity. How many stay installed? How many even get downloaded, never mind booted?
I grabbed more than half a dozen distressed a few months ago - only one survived testing, and it's not as good as any of the distros 5 years ago. I'm not impressed.
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(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday September 10 2019, @03:27AM
Hence the smiley face.
Relax, you'll live longer.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Tuesday September 10 2019, @04:25AM (1 child)
That takes me back. :) I still have original version 9 and 10 Mandrake disks in a box here somewhere. I really liked Mandrake back then.
They used their own RPMs and it just worked a lot better than Redhat or Suse.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday September 10 2019, @08:12PM
Mandrake was amazing.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 10 2019, @12:39AM
Yes! They just have to rename the company to something like Lindo^H^H^H^H^H Mindows!