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Where LiMux failed, GendBuntu succeeded (piefed.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've seen some people point to LiMux as a failure because they switched back to MS, but where LiMux failed GendBuntu (a version of Ubuntu adapted for use by France's National Gendarmerie) runs on over 100,000 stations and is going strong.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

is this the beginning of an article and a link is missing?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

No link, GendBuntu hasn't been in the media a lot, I hope that changes.

There is a detailed wiki article if you'd like to see its history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A big part of LiMux failing was the UI. It was simply ugly and complicated. People simply did not want to work with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

UX is everything

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

LiMux failed because Torvalds didn't bribed the Mayor and the ruling Conservatives, like M$/Gates and Balmer personally did.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i wonder why big operating systems like Debian-derivatives are used instead of smaller ones like TinyCore linux. smaller codebase ought to be simpler to maintain completely?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

They are more commonly used and thus have a large community and documentation and packages also from commercial vendors.