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Marxism and FLOSS. (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I think that a Marxist society should allow for 0 proprietary software, and instead support for everything in free and open source decentralized technology.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Way back when I was using it, I believe Manjaro and Antergos were the 2 biggies with GUI installers. I had heard that Antergos was stopped and just looked up RebornOS and damn it if it isn't Antergos lol. That's pretty cool.

I keep fence sitting on possibly switching to Arch-based full time because of the AUR or over to proper Debian. Might end up looking at Reborn in the near future. It wasn't even on my radar.

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

When you say arch-based, is there like a tree of distros? Where a popular distro will then be redesigned by separate devs? Or are they different at a deeper level? I assume they're all Unix-based at heart?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The common bases of linux distros are:

Debian: known for stability but not fully up to date, uses apt-get as a package manager.

Ubuntu: Based on debian, but more up to date, and supports more proprietary hardware and software (not that debian can't do what ubuntu does with a little tweaking).

Arch: Bleeding edge up to date, can theoretically be unstable. uses pacman as a package manager.

After the base some people differentiate from the base os by changing the default programs installed (often this is including or excluding proprietary software), desktop environment (gnome, KDE, cinnamon, xfce), have different programs in the repository, or have a different installation experience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is all very helpful, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yes, the vast majority of distros are based on another distro (which may be based on another, and ...)

Linux is not Unix-based in the sense that it's a fork of Unix (the latter is proprietary), but it's certainly based on Unix's design, just like the various BSDs

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

That makes sense.

I didn't realise Unix was proprietary. It's amazing what you can't find out when you don't realise that an assumption is even open to challenge. I never thought to question this but now i looked into it a little, things are clearer. This article was useful: https://www.howtogeek.com/182649/htg-explains-what-is-unix/.

Thanks for the info.