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What you can do to financially help your favorite distro

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http://www.linuxandlife.com – Yesterday, I just posted an article about Ubuntu is still not profitable. It was really a surprise to me because Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distro and it has been around since 2004.  And this makes me wonder that if even a big distro - backed up by a big company - like Ubuntu cannot become profitable, how the small distros are doing? Of course, you can say that the distro developers shouldnt care much about money when creating and maintaining the distro. But as you may already know, an enormous amount of work goes into developing and maintaining the desktop distros that we all (Distributions)

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Submitted by funckax on 02/23/2013 – Made popular on 02/23/2013

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I`m allowing myself to disagree with some of the advices you get here.  I would decide which distro should be considered the main distro, and have that distro to control the grub of the others. It doesn`t really mather which order you install them by, as long as you ensure that you only install grub to MBR with your main distro, and install it to PARTITION for all the other distros.

I think it's better to start with Ubuntu or another user-friendly distro than try your hand at Arch. A lot of the things you talk about reveal a lack of knowledge about the inner workings of Linux (no offense; that's just how it is). Linux distros are extremely modular, and GUIs are interchangeable. Aesthetics, therefor, are as well.

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Hello !   I am gsynk. Just installed #! ....Just love the simplicity of this distro.No eye candy, pure core and raw linux , jst the way it should be..I am a Software Engineer by profession, working mostly with sql server and visual studio. My love for linux distros started way back in college., when I first ran Ubuntu on my pc.

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