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Linux system manufacturer System76 introduced a beautiful looking Linux distribution called Pop!_OS. But is Pop OS worth an install? Read the Pop OS review and find out yourself.
More at : https://itsfoss.com/pop-os-linux-review/
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TAPPING? You POLITICIANS! Don't you realize that the END of the "Wash
Cycle" is a TREASURED MOMENT for most people?!
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @12:13AM (2 children)
Going back to 2009, Linux advocate Ken Starks[1] contacted System76 and they didn't have time for him. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [blogspot.com]
To me, they sounded like Red Hat: just using Linux because it's gratis; those folks don't really get behind the *libre* thing (and the community).
Perhaps they've changed since then.
Daddy would say "They've already showed you their colors."
[1] That's the guy who hit the ceiling when a teacher stole a kid's Linux CDs [blogspot.com] because she claimed that Free Software is illegal.
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(Score: 2) by hubie on Wednesday January 17 2018, @08:56PM
It is hard for me to get a feel for how rude they are/were from his comment. However, I did very much enjoy your second link to the school teacher's comments. It sounds like she "experimented" with linux in college, probably with some other illicit or immoral things as well!
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Thursday January 18 2018, @12:28AM
Well, I know they sponsor a number of linux-related podcasts and journalists -- Jupiter Broadcasting and Bryan Lunduke for example...although you could just say that's standard marketing. I've also read that they do contribute code back upstream, although I can't find any concrete examples of that. But they definitely have a lot of their own code published under the GPL on github, so there's that...
From what I know of them, they do seem interested in contributing back to the community, although since they produce hardware rather than software there's not a ton for them to contribute in terms of source code. But they definitely contribute cash to various Linux outlets and conventions and such.
I suspect there may be more to this. Would be interesting to see what his mail to them actually said. Comparing those two companies I noticed ZaReason ships computers with numerous different distros, while System76 standardizes on one -- previously it was Ubuntu, now it's Pop!. So, this guy sends both companies an email advertising the brand new distro he's created. ZaReason has their build system all set up for deploying any distro you want, so it would be easy enough to add one more to the list if it's any good, especially if it's targeting a niche that their existing choices don't. System76 isn't set up that way, they aren't going to ship some new niche distro, there's no reason they'd be interested. And he says himself that he didn't ask for anything, just introduced a distro that they were never going to use, so what did he expect them to do? Maybe their reply was a bit less polite than it could have been...maybe not...he hasn't posted any of the actual mails so we can't really know.