A solemn topic about succession

[Artim]

One-man-show projects are always in this kind of danger.  Some of them have enough enthusiastic supporters to keep the project going, like with Crunchbang Linux, whose successor is Bunsen Labs Linux.  The project lives on! The Mepis project lives on in MX-Linux and antiX Linux.  The same will probably be true of other awesome "one man" distros like PCLinuxOS, which has a large team of very active developers, and Linux Mint.  I don't know if Linux Lite also has a large team of very active developers, but it doesn't appear to, since we don't hear from them very much, only Jerry. 

I know a lot of Linux users don't like "corporations," as if it's somehow evil or something to "make money off of Linux" (Red Hat, Canonical, IBM, etc).  But they offer stability, support, and a future that even the best one-man distros cannot.  When Jerry can no longer keep LL going, I don't think there is a large enough team behind him to maintain it.  Partially that's because LL is aimed at new users, not Linux devs, so it may not be attracting much talent for development.

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