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Richard Brown

Personal blog · rootco.desystemsprogramming

Richard Brown's personal blog at rootco.de covers systems and programming. Since 2016, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Regular Release Linux Distributions Are Wrong”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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9mentions?
7HN people?
2016–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Richard Brown's post arguing that regular releases are wrong, which makes the case for rolling-release distributions. Commenters point to it as a clear explanation of why rolling distros work well.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Geek, Linux Engineer, Photographer

Most-linked posts?

  1. Regular Release Linux Distributions Are Wrong
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-02-11
  2. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. kombine · 2023-03-30Recommends
    Couldn't be happier switching to Tumbleweed, it is fast, robust and up-to-date. One of its creators, Richard Brown, explains well why rolling distros are so great https://rootco.de/2020-02-10-regular-releases-are-wrong/ .

    Comment linking /2020-02-10-regular-releases-are-wrong/

    on “OpenSUSE Linux Gains Momentum: A Look at Its Growing Popularity”
  2. rbrownsuse · 2016-03-29

    Submitted Why You Should Use Tumbleweed as a story · 123 points

    HN discussion
  3. behnamoh · 2022-11-02

    Submitted Regular Release Linux Distributions Are Wrong as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  4. iscream26 · 2023-12-01

    Submitted Regular Release Distributions Are Wrong (2020) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Tomte · 2021-03-29

    Submitted Use Tumbleweed (2016) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. konqi · 2019-07-04

    Submitted OpenSUSE Tumbleweed as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Tomte · 2023-07-04

    Submitted Regular Release Distributions Are Wrong (2020) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. rbrownsuse · 2020-12-09

    Submitted Using combustion to reproducibly deploy openSUSE MicroOS on RPi as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. makepanic · 2020-02-11

    Submitted Regular Release Distributions Are Wrong as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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