Hi, Toptin. Glad to put a smile on your face! Humor helps in difficult times, and COVID has certainly made things difficult.
Torvalds isn't my God; Jesus is. However, in the area of Linux, few people are more of an expert than Linus Torvalds. If he prefers Fedora, that’s a pretty good endorsement. There is one other reason: containers are very important, especially for the cloud. When I started learning about containers, one concern I had was security. From a security standpoint, docker sucks. To address the container security issue, one promising direction is podman. It is a docker replacement, with a *much* better security architecture. The latest podman is delivered in Fedora. I figured that if I wanted to learn containers, I should use something secure, so I started with Fedora and podman. My main Linux VM is Fedora 32. I have also used Oracle Linux, Ubuntu, Raspbian, etc, so it's nothing personal with Fedora. But, the container security issue pushed me over the edge towards Fedora. ~Jeff Kayser -----Original Message----- From: qubes-users@googlegroups.com <qubes-users@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Toptin Sent: Monday, August 10, 2020 9:30 AM To: qubes-users@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [qubes-users] Why Fedora? This email originated from outside the organization Jeff Kayser: > Here is one reason to use Fedora. > > https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww. > fossmint.com%2Fwhich-linux-distribution-does-linus-torvalds-use%2F& > ;data=02%7C01%7Cjeff.kayser%40thehackettgroup.com%7Cfab8ee9071e24793fa > ce08d83d4a9056%7C9a21f1283011452ca6829b884467518d%7C0%7C0%7C6373267377 > 62988903&sdata=dPvgOWqLbgomi%2BMnI1TqGMqdebCxwUBLQQmiFehVNy0%3D&am > p;reserved=0 Ah, see... Mr Torvalds is your God. That isn't a reason at all. But thanks you put a smile on my face. > > ~Jeff Kayser > > -----Original Message----- > From: qubes-users@googlegroups.com <qubes-users@googlegroups.com> On > Behalf Of Chris Laprise > Sent: Monday, August 10, 2020 9:18 AM > To: qubes-users@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: [qubes-users] Why Fedora? > > This email originated from outside the organization > > On 8/10/20 12:05 PM, Toptin wrote: >> Dear Qubes Users, >> >> I'm currently digging my way through the exceptional good Qubes >> documentation. Everything is nicely explained as to why a certain >> decision / implementation was made, except for the use of Fedora as >> main distribution. >> >> I wonder what's the rationale of that decision; Fedora 25 isn't even >> supported anymore. No offense or critic intended, just curiosity. >> >> Regards, toptin. >> > > IIRC the core Linux developer for Qubes stated that Fedora was simply what he > was used to when starting the project. > > Since then an issue has been open to replace Fedora in dom0 with something > else. Yep, that's more like it. Thought something like that. Thanks both of you for your response. 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