"A House Divided...": Preventing the breaking up of Debian
Posted: 2017-08-02 17:48
I'm interested in helping my girlfriend found a non-profit group to help children and I want to use Free Software as the foundation of said group for philosophical reasons. Our goal is to restore laptops for, say, autistic or special needs children to use for school work and I will be running it on a server and a workstation for generating multimedia for said group (an oggcast, for example, or videos for conferences).
With that being said is it better to work within the system of Debian GNU/Linux or pour efforts into a fork like Devuan?
I'm not thrilled with the idea of one program to rule them all approach to software design. Concurrently, the elitist attitudes of the "Veteran Unix Admins" mindset as espoused by this article from Info World seems counterproductive towards creating a solid foundation of cooperation. After all, why would people opt out of one tyrant (Lennart) for the smugness of another?
Note: Regarding the previous term in the title; I'm coming off of reading some books on the period and thought the use of the term made sense. In hindsight I realize that that may have come across differently than intended and for that I apologize.
Edit: Added link for the Info World article I reference later
With that being said is it better to work within the system of Debian GNU/Linux or pour efforts into a fork like Devuan?
I'm not thrilled with the idea of one program to rule them all approach to software design. Concurrently, the elitist attitudes of the "Veteran Unix Admins" mindset as espoused by this article from Info World seems counterproductive towards creating a solid foundation of cooperation. After all, why would people opt out of one tyrant (Lennart) for the smugness of another?
Note: Regarding the previous term in the title; I'm coming off of reading some books on the period and thought the use of the term made sense. In hindsight I realize that that may have come across differently than intended and for that I apologize.
Edit: Added link for the Info World article I reference later