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phlawed writes "I've been a Linux user since the previous millennium. I came from OS/2, which I really liked. I quickly felt at home with icewm, using a suitably tweaked config to give me something resembling Presentation Manager. I may have commented on that before. Today, I find myself in a position where my preferred 'environment' is eroding. The only force keeping icewm rolling these days is the distribution package maintainers. I can't code in any meaningful way, nor do I aspire to. I could easily pay for a supported version of icewm, but I can't personally pay someone enough to keep it alive. I'd love it if someone took a personal interest in the code, to ensure that it remains up to date, or to make it run on Wayland or whatever. I want someone to own the code, be proud of it. Is there a general solution for this situation? How do I go about drumming up interest for an old project?"
And you thought Android suffered from fragmentation.
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Sorry, but "Anonymous Cowards" are not allowed to use the "I" pronoun. There is no "I" there.
While on the topic about fragmentation... Android is another type of linux.
No, its not.
Yes it bloody well is.
Android is a Java based environment not a Linux based environment. Having a hidden Linux kernel several software layers down does not change this fact.
End users and nearly all **developers** don't see it. The Linux kernel could probably be swapped out with a BSD kernel and few would notice.
That's true of desktop linux as well. If you used gnome on FreeBSD you would not notice.
You are mistaken. On the desktop Linux users are not restricted to the GUI, there is also the console. Linux and BSD are a bit different when you get to the console.