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Fedora-Based Linux Distro Korora Halts Development (betanews.com)
Korora, a Fedora-based Linux distro, halted its development this month, BetaNews' Brian Fagioli spotted Wednesday. The announcement would irk many, as Korora consistently received positive feedback from critics and users alike. News outlet ZDNet once described Korora as "Fedora++", while Slashdot readers, too, spoke highly of the distro.
At the same time, the announcement should come as little surprise to anyone who has been tracking Korora's work. In a blog post, Korora team wrote: Korora for the forseeable future is not going to be able to march in cadence with the Fedora releases. In addition to that, for the immediate future there will be no updates to the Korora distribution. Our team is infinitesimal (currently 1 developer and 2 community managers) compared to many other distributions, we don't have the luxury of being able to dedicate the amount of time we would like to spend on the project and still satisfy our real life obligations. So we are taking a little sabbatical to avoid complete burn out and rejuvenate ourselves and our passion for Korora/Fedora and wider open source efforts. The team had expressed similar concerns earlier this year: For the past few years Korora has released a new version in line with each Fedora version. That means that approximately twice a year we prepare, test and create 5 different ISO versions. This is as well as, among other things, developing new projects, supporting existing releases and planning the future versions. As each team member has different skills some tasks, such as development, can only be done by one person. All this is done in our spare time along side our job, family and personal responsibilities. For a very small team, currently 3 people plus the occasional input from others, this is a lot of work. It means that often Korora has to take a back seat when real life intrudes. This isn't the first time Korora had to abruptly pause its development. In 2007, Christopher Smart, who kickstarted Korora (at the time based on Gentoo Linux), had discontinued the project -- only to revive it three years later.
At the same time, the announcement should come as little surprise to anyone who has been tracking Korora's work. In a blog post, Korora team wrote: Korora for the forseeable future is not going to be able to march in cadence with the Fedora releases. In addition to that, for the immediate future there will be no updates to the Korora distribution. Our team is infinitesimal (currently 1 developer and 2 community managers) compared to many other distributions, we don't have the luxury of being able to dedicate the amount of time we would like to spend on the project and still satisfy our real life obligations. So we are taking a little sabbatical to avoid complete burn out and rejuvenate ourselves and our passion for Korora/Fedora and wider open source efforts. The team had expressed similar concerns earlier this year: For the past few years Korora has released a new version in line with each Fedora version. That means that approximately twice a year we prepare, test and create 5 different ISO versions. This is as well as, among other things, developing new projects, supporting existing releases and planning the future versions. As each team member has different skills some tasks, such as development, can only be done by one person. All this is done in our spare time along side our job, family and personal responsibilities. For a very small team, currently 3 people plus the occasional input from others, this is a lot of work. It means that often Korora has to take a back seat when real life intrudes. This isn't the first time Korora had to abruptly pause its development. In 2007, Christopher Smart, who kickstarted Korora (at the time based on Gentoo Linux), had discontinued the project -- only to revive it three years later.
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STOP SHITPOSTING
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as i typed...
for a distribution which is portrayed as being so well know as fedora++
I never Fscking heard of it.
If they like "Red Hat/Fedora done better", they will also like Mageia. It's progenitor was Mandrake, a "red Hat done better" distro.
download link https://www.mageia.org/en/6/
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Why am I not surprised?
The fact that it's so isolated to each task being done by one person only makes it a weak candidate for any Linux distribution.
At that point, it's only a matter of time before one piece of it's weak foundation breaks and it comes tumbling down.
Not to mention.. I've never heard of it.
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There are many GNU/Linux distros as hundreds of them for few kinds of distros:
1. debian-based
2. redhat-based
3. slackware-based
4. source-based
It did not complete divide-and-conquer. They did lack the merge of the divided distros.
Few repositories should be simplified.
People has to pick one OS for its host machine, not hundreds!!!.
What does Linus Torvalds think about this problem?
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it's redhat based so fucked by being infected with the systemd virus
SystemD, DBUS, PulseAudio, GNOME3, Wayland. Fedora, these things hang around your neck like a dead albatross. "Loaded with shit." is a good description of Fedora. Also, let's not forget that the Fedora faggots are the ones who started a lot of that shit. They were jumping up and down wanting systemd etc.. Now they are all excited about Wayland. Fuck that. All it does is take a bunch of useful features (XDMCP *is* fucking useful despite it being too technical for Fedora weenies to comprehend). Wayland takes away great features and then lectures users not to use such "hard" software to maintain. Funny, the people from my own generation seemed to maintain it just fucking fine. Just like init and all the rest of the software that Fedora has poo-poo'd. Now people think the shit-state that Linux is in is *normal*. Well, yes, it has always sucked a bit, but not nearly as much as it blows ass now. Anyhow, those who give a shit are long gone to FreeBSD or other greener pastures, myself included. Seeing shit like this article is just another sad reminder of how the Fedora-minded children of Lennart ruined Linux.
Who would use an OS created by one dude..
oh wait..
This may be a significant loss to the community, but I doubt it. How many Linux distros can one choose from? Scores, for sure. Maybe hundreds? How many of those accomplish something that is not already accomplished by many other distros? How many of them do something original? The vast majority of them seem to be based on one of Fedora, Debian or Ubuntu. What do they do that their parents don't? If you are going to come up with your own Linux distro, at the very least be original. While I am all for variety and choice, this proliferation of that really are little more than me-too is preposterous.
never even heard of this little distro, and I admin hundreds of linux boxes of various distros in multiple locations for a living
seriously, little "distros" (ooo look, we took this other's distros menu and made it pretty, and threw in packages x, y and z) sprout and die like weeds, who cares?
The huge task like development and maintenance of whole a DISTRIBUTION (fork or not) can't stand behind a person, as a duty for a 'solo' single one, being a titanic work.
A well-coordinated team (of teams) is needed, and it is absolutely necessary. And sponsorship via sites like Patreon or employment from a backend company who sell subscriptions, like hardware-software integration service. Limux was a good idea but not specialized for needs of a single city but generalized for governments, ministries, state or private organizations, local governments administrations, town halls etc. And of course a lot of contributors and testers, from both categories, as much as possible.
|Our team is infinitesimal (currently 1 developer and 2 community managers)
Hire Patrick Volkerding as consultant.
What about that Ubuntu fork "Ubuntu Ultimate". Okay, now called Ultimate Edition, now. The (sole?) developer there, TheeMahn supposedly does Ubuntu releases all by his lonesome with the help of a army of scripts he's created - so via automation. Maybe he could help, or at least drop some pointers.
I am one of the Korora users. I still choose it when I want to deploy a system on which I am merely an auxiliary user, and I just want it to be ready-to-go for the users. I have migrated to Fedora for my own systems because I kickstart and inject all my own configs and repos. But, for the family machines, they get Korora. With the arrival of Fedora 28, though, the K26 systems will fall behind and eventually I'll upgrade them to Fedora 28+.
At first I thought my unfamiliarity with it was just that I am firmly on the Debian side in the type of distros I prefer. This isn't even in the Distrowatch top 300 - if there are (at least) 300 distributions above you, including Slackware, the distribution that is, famously, essentially a one-man-show, then this is beyond even being a niche case. I kind of feel for the guy, though. Whomever he is. He's dedicated ten years of his life to making a distribution that could only register on the Internet's visual perceptors by a perfect storm combination of going supernova and a bored Slashdot editor being shown the explosion through a telescope.
I used to install Fedora for other people.
The thing is, Fedora has an 18 month life. If you REALLY need some bleeding-edge feature that CentOS / Redhat doesn't have, the trade-off might be worth it. For 98% of use cases, CentOS will do what they want to do, more reliably, and with years of updates and support.
THX for that comprehensive list of changes happen over the years.
never even heard of this little distro, and I admin hundreds of linux boxes of various distros in multiple locations for a living
seriously, little "distros" (ooo look, we took this other's distros menu and made it pretty, and threw in packages x, y and z) sprout and die like weeds, who cares?
The systemd hater circlejerk.