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Manjaro levels up as a serious Linux distribution

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Today, the team at Manjaro [Official Site] shared some pretty big news for the future of the Linux distribution and it sounds great.

A new company was officially formed as Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG, with Manjaro developers Philip Müller and Bernhard Landauer now being able to commit to the Linux distribution full time with the help of Blue Systems in an advisory role. On top of that, they're working towards teaming up with the non-profit groups CommunityBridge and OpenCollective to handle their donation funding which can then be used towards project-related expenses.

They say this will help them do quite a lot like: protect the independence of Manjaro, provide faster security updates and a more efficient reaction to the needs of users, provide the means to act as a company on a professional level, bring in additional contributors on a paid basis and so on.

Something they made pretty clear, is that the way it's run overall won't be changing. So they will continue to interact with the community, take on suggestions and all that. This is all just formal stuff to get them on secured footing for the future. It will help them to partner with other companies of course, since they're now actually a company themselves. You can see their full post about the news on their forum.

I think it's fantastic when a project made from passion can become something serious like this. It reminds me of how we here at GamingOnLinux started off as nothing more than a little weekend project and now we're here full time.

Can't wait to see what Manjaro can achieve now, good luck to them on it.

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Adrian Sep 9, 2019
I gave Manjaro Gnome desktop a run the other day to see what the fuss was about, and was really impressed. Have not used Gnome for over a year, so noticed big improvements here. Also because it's based on arch it was great to have all the latest packages. Anyone that hasn't been down this path, give it a go. I'm not ready to ditch my Ubuntu distro just yet thou, as I feel more comfortable.
Sputnik_tr_02 Sep 9, 2019
Quoting: ShmerlWould be nice if they also focus on KDE as the primary supported DE, and will help speeding up its development.

Blue Systems is one of KDE patrons and they are employing some of KDE developers if I'm not mistaken, so KDE flavor might get some more focus. Hopefully.
tofuhead Sep 10, 2019
heh, I was about to write appraising comment here for manjaro.. as I always thought Arch-type distributions were just hard to manage... but I had been running Manjaro on my spare laptop for couple of weeks now and was quite surprised how easy and nice it was.

well, after todays normal update it broke. doesn't boot, kernel panic.

sooo.... I think I just stick with the ubuntus for now.. my main machine has been running several years without any problems.. version after version dist-upgrades, and still going strong :) I just liked the idea of rolling release, but apparently this wasn't it.

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