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[MarkHaysHarris777]

Longsleep Debian XFCE build

Please stop using this term since there is no such thing! Longsleep did an amazing job getting the BSP stuff (u-boot and kernel) to work with Linux. Every OS image available that provides display output relies on his work: longsleep's original Ubuntu, Pine64's crippled Ubuntu, Armbian's legacy images, DietPi and even pine64.pro's Debian XFCE build.

The only connection between any Debian XFCE stuff and longsleep is that the former relies on the latter's work. That's all. But calling this a 'Longsleep Debian XFCE build' is almost an insult.

hi, I don't see any problem with the terminology in as far as 'longsleep - debian - xfce' refers to 'kernel - repositories - desktop'.

In other words unixoutlaw is refering to the kernel (longsleep's work) the distro repositories (debian) and the desktop of choice (xfce).

I understand your point tkaiser, but I'm wondering if you would provide some further details;  for instance, what makes pine's ubuntu 'crippled' (this is important), what makes any of these distros different if they all use the same bsp kernel and uboot, why does it fundamentally matter?  I appreciate your opinion on this, I'm just certain that most new users are not going to understand what you're talking about. 

Not to mention that outside the SBC communities (including armbian) ubuntu derives from debian, not the other way 'round.  (that confuses folks too, on its own merit).  So I'm wondering if you would talk about the specific differences ( maybe in a large single write-up that I could pin as sticky ) that details what the differences really are so that users can make informed decisions. 

thanks