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Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros • The Register (www.theregister.com)

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

You think there is a dearth of software engineers out there who can't spend time on something cool like a linux distro?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Well, yeah. Its pretty well established that there is fairly limited resources in open source. Loads of software engineers, very few contributors.

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

We can try to lower the barrier of entry. But nowadays open source maintainers have to actually limit controbutions due to a significant increase in supply chain attacks and generally untrustworthy code contributions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Maybe because of projects that aren't interested in the opinions of distro maintainers, let alone individual contributors.