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Libranet On The Rocks

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the end-of-the-road dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Following the death of his father Jon, it looks as though Tal is going to finally throw in the towel with regards the running of Libranet. Given his age and his personal circumstances who can blame in? But on a purely selfish level, is there anyone out there who can help save my favourite distribution?"

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  1. ubuntu takes over? by Janek+Kozicki · · Score: 3, Insightful

    both libranet and ubuntu are based on debian. They both use debian's package system. Libranet is dead, long live ubuntu.

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  2. Re:pickup the slack by slavemowgli · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You just *might* have found out if you had clicked on the article link. They're there for a reason, y'know?

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  3. Re:one man wonder distros by timeOday · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Then again Slackware has already outlasted a lot of commercial software vendors I've seen.

  4. Re:one man wonder distros by GoofyBoy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    >there's absolutely NO REASON to avoid one-person outfits. If the maintainer bows out, at worst you can support yourself,

    That, by itself, is a great reason to avoid one-person outfits.

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