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Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS

posted by Fnord666 on Monday January 15 2018, @08:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the It's-FOSS dept.

Phillip writes:

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @07:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @07:06PM (#623229)

    Fragmentation is basically the spiel used to turn every distro into a Fedora clone, with Systemd and Gnome as the "headline attractions".

    Fragmentation has not been and never will be the problem. The problem has always been with mayfly programmers that think they can rewrite decade-plus battle hardened code with something they whipped up over the weekend while learning some new language or other. This while giving the middle finger to any notion of API stability.

    The reason Linux the kernel so used everywhere is that Torvalds comes down like an angry Finn on anyone that screwed up the userspace facing APIs.

    The only reason the likes of Debian and RHEL has maintained some success is because they basically freeze the version of the software offered, much to the chagrin to previously mentioned mayfly programmers (to the point that they have now latched on to containerization as way to have their cake and eat it to, by replicating the kind of software installs that was done back in the DOS days) that always wants to see people use their latest and "greatest" creations.

    Damn it, one big reason that Windows is still around is that you are likely to be able to run software initially written back in the Win95 era. This because Microsoft has been adamant about maintaining API stability across Windows releases. You may even be able to run Win16 based software on Windows 10, if you install the 32-bit form of the OS (and the problem there is hardware rather than software related).