Chris Laprise: > On 8/10/20 12:30 PM, Toptin wrote: >> Jeff Kayser: >>> Here is one reason to use Fedora. >>> >>> https://www.fossmint.com/which-linux-distribution-does-linus-torvalds-use/ >>> >> >> Ah, see... Mr Torvalds is your God. That isn't a reason at all. But >> thanks you put a smile on my face. >> >>> >>> ~Jeff Kayser >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: qubes-users@googlegroups.com <qubes-users@googlegroups.com> On >>> Behalf Of Chris Laprise >>> Sent: Monday, August 10, 2020 9:18 AM >>> To: qubes-users@googlegroups.com >>> Subject: Re: [qubes-users] Why Fedora? >>> >>> This email originated from outside the organization >>> >>> On 8/10/20 12:05 PM, Toptin wrote: >>>> Dear Qubes Users, >>>> >>>> I'm currently digging my way through the exceptional good Qubes >>>> documentation. Everything is nicely explained as to why a certain >>>> decision / implementation was made, except for the use of Fedora as >>>> main distribution. >>>> >>>> I wonder what's the rationale of that decision; Fedora 25 isn't even >>>> supported anymore. No offense or critic intended, just curiosity. >>>> >>>> Regards, toptin. > > I think the subtext here is that Fedora gets the changes first and it > makes a good development environment (for Linux code anyway). But that's > also why they don't curate or test or secure it like a regular > production-ready OS. And also why they don't care about having a wide > array of apps. > > I'd rather see a transition to something more stable like Debian which > is also flexible enough to let you pull in newer packages from a tiered > repository (stable, testing, unstable, and experimental). >
That was my thinking too, but still as mentioned in my previous post I would have thought something like Arch-Linux or even Gentoo would be better choice because both distribution are actually meta-distributions (a distribution to build a target distribution). I worked with both and wouldn't recommend it to an end-user but for development to build something like Qubes? Yes, I would consider that. Nothing against Debian. Definitely not. Very trustworthy and knowledgeable community, but still quite a big system, especially if one wants to strip it down. And then those unfortunate version upgrades. But once it's installed it's rock solid. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/a723cfbd-df7c-2161-e445-a2753d318f7a%40riseup.net.
