21st March 2018, 14:41
I am a relatively quite guy here, but I would like to speak my mind at this point.
First of all, let it be known, that I do agree, that the Maui devs has done an wonderful job, Maui is one of the most stable distros on KDE Plasma. By know way should my post come across that I am belittling or dethroning the orginal devs. Should it even remotely sound like disrespectful, please understand, that that is a communication gap - disrespect is not my goal.
With that in mind here is my proposal :
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Maui devs are going to focus more on netrunner. Because I am a primarily netrunner user, I say i heart this decision. Netrunner has potential to become a great desktop distro , eventually taking down ubuntu or mint.
But, I say, can we put our shoulders under the load now ?
The devs have given us the fruit of their work. Can we, as the community take over from here, and continue? may be until the devs want to come back again ?
I do not want MAui to be a competitor to Netrunner. I want Netrunner to capture the Mint userpool, after mint is retired. I want Maui to carry the awesome stability and usability to specialist linux. In scientific community, things like scientific linux or fedora are more beloved, albeit a bit less comfortable to use than Maui.
I would like maui to be a fresh newcomer there.
The problems Maui could solve :
First of all, let it be known, that I do agree, that the Maui devs has done an wonderful job, Maui is one of the most stable distros on KDE Plasma. By know way should my post come across that I am belittling or dethroning the orginal devs. Should it even remotely sound like disrespectful, please understand, that that is a communication gap - disrespect is not my goal.
With that in mind here is my proposal :
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Maui devs are going to focus more on netrunner. Because I am a primarily netrunner user, I say i heart this decision. Netrunner has potential to become a great desktop distro , eventually taking down ubuntu or mint.
But, I say, can we put our shoulders under the load now ?
The devs have given us the fruit of their work. Can we, as the community take over from here, and continue? may be until the devs want to come back again ?
I do not want MAui to be a competitor to Netrunner. I want Netrunner to capture the Mint userpool, after mint is retired. I want Maui to carry the awesome stability and usability to specialist linux. In scientific community, things like scientific linux or fedora are more beloved, albeit a bit less comfortable to use than Maui.
I would like maui to be a fresh newcomer there.
The problems Maui could solve :
- Stability and smooth, modern look and feel will attract mac users - leading software manufacturers eventually to consider supporting linux
- There is a plethora of scientific packages in Arch User Repo, but orphaned and/or have not been updated in ages. We can take those old works, update the packagebuilds, and catch up with the actual software development.
- There is a plethora of scientific software, e.g. seismic software released by USGS / NASA - and left as tarballs / rpm - not directly usable by the pacman system . we could incorporate that.
- The FHS structure has been challenged by things like Gobo or NixOs. See : https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions...to-the-fhs - i think there are better ways of handling this .
Anybody interested in carrying the torch further where Maui Devs have left?
Again, no disrespect intended - but I'll look forward to hear from you.