What is the added value of a Linux distribution
Posted May 5, 2026 12:59 UTC (Tue) by
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What is the added value of a Linux distribution by ebassi
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What is the added value of a Linux distribution
Posted May 5, 2026 13:44 UTC (Tue)
by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
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GNOME already maintains GNOME OS as a developer-facing distribution of its own; it would almost certainly be less work to make GNOME OS into an end-user-facing distribution of its own than to have a triage team that handles Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo and other variants on upstream GNOME packages.
What is the added value of a Linux distribution
Posted May 5, 2026 17:16 UTC (Tue)
by hmh (subscriber, #3838)
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What is the added value of a Linux distribution
Posted May 5, 2026 17:19 UTC (Tue)
by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
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That is also Fedora's policy - the reason this is a firestorm is that the GNOME package maintainers for Fedora are asking users to send bugs upstream, rather than triaging in the distro and forwarding upstream when appropriate.
The hard question is whether it's simpler for GNOME to have GNOME OS (and not care about bugs from other distros), to have the Fedora practical policy that's in dispute here (where downstream send their users upstream to file bugs), or to have the Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu paper policy (where maintainers triage bugs in the distro, and forward upstream if it's not a distro-caused bug).
I suspect GNOME will focus on GNOME OS
Posted May 5, 2026 18:41 UTC (Tue)
by DemiMarie (subscriber, #164188)
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What is the added value of a Linux distribution
Posted May 5, 2026 18:05 UTC (Tue)
by hunger (subscriber, #36242)
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What is the added value of a Linux distribution
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