On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 05:34:48PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:

> The fact that Redhat is #64 tells me not that many people are buying
> their stupid support,

Lest we get too excited, let me note two things:

    https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=faq#phr

This says,

    What is this "Page Hit Ranking"?

    It is a light-hearted way of looking at popularity of distribution.
    Since each distribution has its own page, we thought it would be fun to
    track the number of visitors viewing individual distribution pages. The
    Page Hit Ranking (PHR) figure represents hits per day by unique
    visitors; as determined by the visitor's IP address.

So, you need to ask yourself if the people buying Red Hat support contracts
are visiting DistroWatch daily. I'd argue that, having made their choice,
they probably aren't weighing the merits of deploying MX Linux to their
datacenters.


> And given Redhat's, Freedesktop's and Poettering's rhetoric about how
> completely systemd has taken over, #64 is unexpectedly low

This brings us to the other thing worthy of note. Try sometime to install
Devuan (not Debian, Devuan) without systemd and you'll be in for a rude
shock. It's installed by default, and it's a massive pain to eradicate it.

Does this bother you? It bothers me. If it's impossible to install *Devuan*
without systemd, that's problematic. (To forestall the inevitable pedantry,
elogind is systemd. It's a major component of it. And libelogind0 maps
directly to libsystemd0. A rose by any other name...)

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