The BBC isn't a government body and isn't funded by taxes, it's primarily funded by the license fee (and selling broadcasting rights overseas).
The internet has royally fucked the funding model - as everyone and their mum has equipment capable of receiving live broadcast tv, but unless it becomes an official government mouthpiece it's unlikely to become something we pay for out of taxes.
As originally conceived, the engineer's iron ring rubs against the drawings and paper upon which the Engineer writes and even in modern times, serves as a reminder when working on a computer.
Think it's intended more for the design engineer than the construction engineer.
But that said you can get some decent silicone rings that won't de-glove you if they get caught these days.
They might not be American - I don't think anywhere else does the iron ring thing....
It smacks of elitism, that's all.
The OS is simply a means to an end. If Linux offers a way to do what they want in a way that is less hassle, and it meets their needs, then that's a good thing.
customizable and configurable
Whatever you think of OPs proposed use case is definitely falls under the above.
It's this kind of 1337 h@xor approach to the OS that makes people feel like it's unapproachable when that's so far from the reality these days.
Not really - there's plenty of use cases where running memory intensive stuff like that isn't an issue and running a small footprint distro makes more sense than, say, a maximalist, fully featured desktop distro.
I'm not trying to run a media centre or play games on my 11 year old MacBook!
Point taken!
I don't think the lite distros are to blame for performance drops in that case, are they? Unless it's down to a lack of system optimisation.
Fair enough!
I've done some blindingly stupid things with my installs in the past, and I'm not angling to try any in the near future - I guess I'll just embrace the reinstallation game!
That's a blast from the past! I used to run #! On my 701...
So if there's additional repositories does that mean that there is likely to be core functionality which would be broken if it stops being maintained?
It's not a government body, so it can't be official. The closest it gets is unofficial mouthpiece for the British Establishment™.