• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    i’ve always been in awe of people who do this; it goes well beyond linux from scratch and they’ll never get rewarded for doing it… it’s purely a labor of love.

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        2 days ago

        HEAVY emphasis on the words “labor of love” … should be getting paid for this and i know for a fact that people who do this professionally make around $200k a year for doing it becuase i worked with them for up until a couple weeks ago at old-silicon.

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          gosh, if only! at the present, I just see this project as a means for me to explore building a distro not based on any other, but I could imagine struggling to find the time to individually maintain each package in future… (unless there’s other maintainers too, which might happen if this project ends up going anywhere); still a long a way to go though, I suppose :p

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            24 hours ago

            i used to be one of those maintainers. it was my job to build server and container images so i had to spend a lot of time with the company’s internal distro maintainers and it always blew me away how much work they had to do.