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community involvement =/= community distro

Story: What Makes a Community Distro?Total Replies: 3
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linux4567

Jun 10, 2013
8:37 AM EDT 		Just because a distro has some degree of community involvement (like Fedora, Opensuse, Ubuntu) that doesn't make it a community distro.

A real community distro is run completely by a community of volunteers who do all the work and make all the decisions without influence from any commercial entity.
DrGeoffrey

Jun 10, 2013
9:06 AM EDT 		It's fascinating how all these commercial distributions want to be called a community distro.

Perhaps marketing in Linux is not dead.
flufferbeer

Jun 10, 2013
11:53 AM EDT 		@DrGeoffrrey,

>> It's fascinating how all these commercial distributions want to be called a community distro.

Seems to me that the worst of these here is the Canonical-M$'s flagship product, Baboontu. Remember all that brouhaha around March 9-10 of this year about the Canonical bigshots' notorious "Community-Avoidance" decisions(M$) and PR-spin(JBocan) ??!!

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Browser72

Jun 10, 2013
12:29 PM EDT 		@linux4567,

By that definition, wouldn't Linux MInt be a non0community distribution. It hires developers. So it's not completely run by a community of volunteers.

I think the expansion of Linux Mint and their decision to expand with paid developers was a very good thing.

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