The so-called ‘Linux’ Foundation is reducing its focus on Linux and is instead busy promoting Microsoft, Facebook, and other interests that GNU/Linux users strongly dislike

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[–]panel30 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Hm. Thanks. I don't know much about the FreeBSD or the community so it's interesting to hear some perspective on it. I haven't started trying alt stuff for phone so I might do that at some point, it's nice to know it's out there. The OS I have now sends me ads and I don't like it. And I'd like to be able to customize it a lot more. And just know what it's doing.

For the split, I don't know exactly, it was a guy's conference on BSD. But I doubt it was about dragonfly, it seem like someone who has been removed because he became too much trouble.

Hm ok. I had heard that the DragonFly person split because he was committing too much or something, it was too big a change and there wasn't time for others to review the code, he was too prolific. So he just made his own project. I heard it was fairly amicable considering. But I don't remember exactly, I'm sure it's all documented more accurately somewhere.

It's nice to know why people are asked to leave a project if they are, just re censorship and related issues.

Well anyway. I can look more when I'm ready to look for a new OS. Thanks for the perspective and for reminding me about the nice things about open source, it's easy to forget a bit sometimes when I get frustrated with something or other.

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    [–]panel30 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Interesting, thanks... these look like they address issues I've been running into, actually.

    I like having less stuff displayed, I find it sortof distracting. In my phone OS, and on my old windows computer, I don't know how to turn of not just ads, but a lot of the stuff that's displayed on the desktop and in the interface by default. I switched from windows a little while ago and I find it really pleasant to be able to make the display much simpler. I guess each person has their own things they want from customization.