News Story Linuxdistrus nolongerexista: What Happens When a Linu...

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Thu, 11/12/2009 - 17:06

It's a fact of life that Linux distributions go extinct and it happens more often than our Linux fan base would like to admit.

At last count, there are approximately 50 individual distributions that are now extinct.

What happens to the poor unfortunates who adopt and use these defunct distros? Are they left in the cold or are there alternatives that are close enough that a relatively tech savvy administrator could migrate apps and dependencies to another distribution?

Some...

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