It’s a unique combination of extreme stability and extreme KISS philosophy.
Sparse updates are a selling point for some people. You do get timely security updates, but you don’t get “version number must go up”.
For installing additional software there are 5 package managers that I know of, 4 of which resolve dependencies.
The base system doesn’t need a fancy one because the installer already resolves all dependencies.
And as for support, there’s well-written documentation installed with the system, and linuxquestions.org has a very active community where the main dev and the maintainers post regularly.
It’s certainly not a good distro for most people, but it’s the perfect one for roughly 10000 users worldwide.
It’s a unique combination of extreme stability and extreme KISS philosophy.
Sparse updates are a selling point for some people. You do get timely security updates, but you don’t get “version number must go up”.
For installing additional software there are 5 package managers that I know of, 4 of which resolve dependencies.
The base system doesn’t need a fancy one because the installer already resolves all dependencies.
And as for support, there’s well-written documentation installed with the system, and linuxquestions.org has a very active community where the main dev and the maintainers post regularly.
It’s certainly not a good distro for most people, but it’s the perfect one for roughly 10000 users worldwide.