TFIR edition Video interview with Greg Kroah-Hartman, the kernel maintainer for the stable branch. Linux, and also serves as the maintainer of a number of kernel subsystems Linux (USB, driver core) and the founder of the initiative to develop drivers for Linux (Linux driver project). Greg talked about switching distributions on his work systems. Despite working for SUSE/Novell for seven years before 2012, Greg stopped using openSUSE and now uses Arch as his primary OS. Linux on all his laptops, computers, and even cloud environments. He also runs several Gentoo virtual machines on his computer, Debian and Fedora for the purpose of testing some tools in user space.
The need to work with the latest version of some program prompted Greg to switch to Arch, and Arch turned out to be what was needed. Greg also knew several Arch developers for a long time and liked
the philosophy of the distribution and the idea of continuous delivery of updates, which does not require the periodic installation of new releases of the distribution and allows you to always have fresh versions of programs.
It is noted as an important factor that the Arch developers try to stay as close to upstream as possible, without making unnecessary patches, without changing the behavior intended by the original developers, and pushing bug fixes directly into the main projects. The ability to evaluate the current state of programs allows you to get good feedback from the community, quickly catch emerging errors and quickly receive fixes.
Among the advantages of Arch, the neutral nature of the distribution is also mentioned, developed by a community independent of individual companies, and an excellent section with comprehensive and understandable documentation (as an example of a quality squeeze of useful information, with the systemd manual).
Source: opennet.ru
