Sad news: Another Linux distro is shutting down

Ok, was anybody on the forum using it? The only one search result for this distro name is this thread.

 

A new one for me. Out of the 100+ plus probably not going to bother anyone aside from users.

This is the report on DistroWatch: https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12524

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kaisen

 

Just Intel being "corporate" Intel = cutting down projects which don't generate income - even tho, the maintenance of this small project - was rather minimal cost wise (but someone from upper management - had to put some names on a cutting budget list and didn't see any value in a Open Source Linux project). Launched in 2015 - ended in 2025 (that's 10 years).

To be fair, in all that time - didn't really stand out that much (the majority of Linux users - probably only heard about it by accident - while included in some benchmark on Phoronix - or at least that's the only place i've seen it in past decade).

 

I typed this query to Google. No result was found

Code:

site:phoronix.com Kaisen

I also tried

 

IMHO, and FWIW, I think there are already too many distros out there.
Maybe we'd get a better and stronger Linux if all that energy was spent in a tighter register.
Just my $0.02 anyway.

 

That's what I was about to say.

 

There is only one, the one you are using.

In all seriousness I started in this Linux game back in 1993 (floppy installs back then). Not many to choose from then. Decided on my current one back then too. I have tried about of dozen or so to date, nothing fits me. Some I tried for a time, others lasted not much more past the installation. My current one almost lost me back in 2005 but, I came back after about 6 months. Right now I have zero plans on changing. I quit looking several years ago, the grass may look greener over the fence but once you cross the fence you discover otherwise.

Today there are so many that it's confusing for folks who may be looking for alternatives. I'd only recommend a handful of existing ones. DistroWatch has 333 active distributions in their database, 669 as discontinued (include the two mentioned in the article. It list 41 as dormant.

 

So, what's your current one?

 

My bad (didn't read the last part - about Kaisen at the end, i thought it was about "Clear" Linux - covering 80% of the quoted line - which is an intel project and was shutdown just recently).

 

I used to think the same, but once I understood that most distributions are just personal customizations projects of other distros saved in permanent storage and published , I no longer think that way.
Think about mods to popular games or some Windows "editions" shared by some groups of Windows power users*

*In good faith thought probably gray area on legal side due to Windows licensing

 

chrisretusn's signature says: Slackware64-current

 

I didn't notice the signature.

 

Sorry I assumed (hate the word) that folks would read my signature.

Yeah Slackware since 1993.