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Why is Ubuntu always the choice, why not fedora or opensuse?
by minroot 2y ago
Why is Ubuntu always the choice, why not fedora or opensuse?
- Octoth0rpe 2y agoIn some sense, this question answers itself: the most important distro to support is the most popular distro in the space.
- ZiiS 2y agoBecause Canonical invested in it and they didn't.
- taffronaut 2y agoUbuntu has historically had a business model that is more open to supporting out-of-tree kernel patches
- infamouscow 2y agoI can think of two reasons: 1. Ubuntu invested very heavily into making Linux friendly to a whole generation of makers when nobody else was. Ubuntu is most familiar to them. Canonical will benefit from that investment for the foreseeable future. 2. Ubuntu benefits from Debian's debootstrap which makes porting to a new architecture substantially easier.
- pabs3 2y agodebootstrap (or mmdebstrap) is just for installing the already existing binary packages. The bootstrap process for bringing up a new port is a lot more work. https://wiki.debian.org/SystemBuildTools https://wiki.debian.org/SystemBuildTools https://wiki.debian.org/PortsDocs/New https://wiki.debian.org/PortsDocs/New https://wiki.debian.org/RISC-V https://wiki.debian.org/RISC-V The reason why Ubuntu is probably that they are a commercial vendor so you can make contracts with them, while the likes of Debian just work on what they care about when they have time.
- someone10492 2y agoBecause Debian has been one of the first distributions supporting RISC-V and ubuntu is simply using packages from it.