LET’S GO DEEEEBIAAAAAAAAAN!
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026
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Are the numbers real?
annual revenue of backing company:
- ubuntu/debian: ca. 300m$
- suse: ca. 700m$
That's astonishing
I fully support the choice of fedora with bootc. It's an amazing technology. But it's somewhat sad that it's not a European linux base for European institutions.
Edit: Nunbers for suse are correct: ARR FY 664.9
Ubuntu is also correct
Oh imagine if canonical gave even a fraction of that back to Debian.
You mean like by hiring a significant chunk of Debian maintainers, including the most active apt developer, by having their employees maintain a significant chunk of Debian packages, and by explicitly upstreaming their patches to Debian?
Jep, SUSE is quite big. Ubuntu is only more popular among private users
Well, I prefer Arch, but a major factor in that preference is the fact that some software I rely on for my work is very hard to find on other distributions and that creates unnecessary hassle for me.
Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu are both pretty solid choices for a base OS, but Fedora might be more robust in the long run.
Fedora is not really a community distro, the way Debian is.
Fedora is also one of the most US-cocksucking distros of the bunch, what with being RedHat-derivative.
It's not a Red Hat derivative. It's upstream of Red Hat.
In a way Fedora is like interim Ubuntu releases, CentOS Stream is like LTS Ubuntu releases, and RHEL is like Ubuntu Pro. So if you want to stay away from a US company, Fedora isn't a great idea.