Just because you're not the target demographic doesn't mean the demographic does...

duaneb · on Oct 31, 2016

If the demographic exists, they wouldn't know it from reading this blog post.

formula1 · on Oct 31, 2016

Their competition is dsl, arch, raspbarrien and other small/IoT OSs. Not to say their product is worse. But why are they forking instead of supporting existing technologies?

Not saying their work isnt useful. But theres an argument to be made for "why"?

agildehaus · on Oct 31, 2016

Because they can. There's your why.

Now you get to answer the "why not?".

Zikes · on Oct 31, 2016

Also, as they put it themselves:

> We wanted to see if with 25 years of hindsight and a clean slate we could create something interesting and unique in the operating systems space.

formula1 · on Oct 31, 2016

Because taking away mindshare instead of consolidating efforts hurts all parties. Competition is often good when done for very good reasons, iojs vs nodejs, proprietary goals vs purely open source. Their goal is the same goal as many other projects however, instead of supporting those projects they are releasing their own which will likely have to go through a LOT of growing pains to compete with current projects. Simply releasing your own OS (written by two guys) seems naive at best and arrogant at worst.