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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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for a distribution which is portrayed as being so well know as fedora++
I never Fscking heard of it.
It's not censorship; it's telling you they think your post sucks horse.
Serious Slashdot readers always browse at -1 anyway. That's exactly how I'm able to reply to your post.
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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/
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
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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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?
So, while I don't agree particularly with either AC statement, they are neither off topic nor particularly trollish.
C'mon, folks. TFA is about a very small distro going under. Comparing to M$ and redhat are legit on this thread.
Check your premises.
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+.
Fact: Moderation allows posts to be suppressed based on their content. This is censorship. Moderation is censorship, no matter how much the pro-censorship isers here deny it.
Moderation is censorship and should be abolished.
Until Slashdot is owned by the government, they can censor anything they please.
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
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.
yes, you are right, despite my comment being logical and reasonable, whoever modded me down as flamebait proves you are right and the mod point system is divisive and whoever modded me down can go eat a bag of dicks
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Ignoring Slashdot is a private company and can censor anything they want using their resources.
Shocking fact, if you post shit people don't like your comments get down voted. Just like real life where people choose to ignore you.
You aren't entitled to an audience, speak whatever you wish but if you say things people don't like they aren't going to listen to you. This is no different than moderation. That's life.