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Originally Posted by Quoth
I could never see the point of it.
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It was one of the earlier attempts at a modern (read: not based on legacy BSD work) filesystem.
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Originally Posted by DNSB
My major issue with the plethora of Linux distributions is that most of them seem to go out of their way to supply incompatibilities. Within distro families, it's not as bad but if you go from a distribution family to a different family (Slackware, Arch or SUSE or pretty much any other family) distribution, a wipe and reinstall (or in my case, spinning up a new VM) is the best way to go.
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That's simply a consequence of using different packaging systems and/or repositories. See previous about metadata tags and no standards, or too many "standards". It's the same thing.
MY biggest problem with so many distros is that we get forks and chains and who knows how long any of them will last. I've been considering reinstalling my home server with Devuan, a Debian fork, especially since my attempt at upgrading from Debian 12 to Debian 13 last night failed miserably -- first time that's happened to me since I've been using Debian and that was Debian 6. But if Devuan ends then that leaves me... needing to reinstall again?