is this the beginning of an article and a link is missing?
No link, GendBuntu hasn't been in the media a lot, I hope that changes.
There is a detailed wiki article if you'd like to see its history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu
LiMux failed because Torvalds didn't bribed the Mayor and the ruling Conservatives, like M$/Gates and Balmer personally did.
i wonder why big operating systems like Debian-derivatives are used instead of smaller ones like TinyCore linux. smaller codebase ought to be simpler to maintain completely?
They are more commonly used and thus have a large community and documentation and packages also from commercial vendors.
A big part of LiMux failing was the UI. It was simply ugly and complicated. People simply did not want to work with it.
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