{"id":4940,"date":"2014-12-29T13:54:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T13:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themes.bdayh.com\/magic-mag\/?p=121"},"modified":"2021-06-27T15:09:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T20:09:19","slug":"the-curious-case-of-the-disappearing-distros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/the-curious-case-of-the-disappearing-distros\/","title":{"rendered":"The Curious Case of the Disappearing Distros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n[dropcap] W [\/dropcap] ell the holidays are pretty much upon us at last here in the Linux blogosphere, and there&#8217;s nowhere left to hide. The next two weeks or so promise little more than a blur of forced social occasions and too-large meals, punctuated only &#8212; for the luckier ones among us &#8212; by occasional respite down at the Broken Windows Lounge.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that&#8217;s why Linux bloggers seized with such glee upon the good old-fashioned mystery that came up recently &#8212; delivered in the nick of time, as if on cue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why is the Number of Linux Distros Declining?&#8221; is the question posed over at Datamation, and it&#8217;s just the distraction so many FOSS fans have been needing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Until about 2011, the number of active distributions slowly increased by a few each year,&#8221; wrote author Bruce Byfield. &#8220;By contrast, the last three years have seen a 12 percent decline &#8212; a decrease too high to be likely to be coincidence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So what&#8217;s happening?&#8221; Byfield wondered.<\/p>\n<p>It would be difficult to imagine a more thought-provoking question with which to spend the Northern hemisphere&#8217;s shortest days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[dropcap] W [\/dropcap] ell the holidays are pretty much upon us at last here in the Linux blogosphere, and there&#8217;s nowhere left to hide. The next two weeks or so promise little more than a blur of forced social occasions and too-large meals, punctuated only &#8212; for the luckier ones among us &#8212; by occasional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[83,85],"class_list":["post-4940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nws","tag-magic","tag-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25469,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions\/25469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}