
Supporting Open Source Projects
I remember (back in time) when I was still using Slackware Linux. It is a Linux distribution maintained by Patrick Volkerding - the only person behind a project with thousands or tens of thousands of users (maybe more, who knows?). Occasionally the news section of the distro had a new post published that looked like: "I'm taking two weeks off with my family for the holidays, and I will be unable to reply to support inquiries while I'm away". It probably looks odd, and the Linux distribution was pretty stable once configured, but compared to the commercial operating systems it is… Continue Reading