"Adding value to Linux and empowering the whitebox developer are two keypoints that need to be focused upon if we are to grow the Linux user-base. The following osViews editorial contribution is the third piece in a multipart series, which outlines the means that will allow us to provide more value and greater resource to Linux users and those who help distribute the open source operating system.
"Software applications on Windows and GNU-Linux are a moving target. Properly keeping up with updates, upgrades and security fixes requires a well-supported base. All of the proprietary, commercial and most independent Linux Home Desktop Distros are unable to keep current with applications software as the result of breaking absolute compatibility with their core base distribution package management..."