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Then there's possibly just as important a question as to what graphical shell (window manager) is a better choice.
Really also a question of whether FIRST considers Qt(with the possible commercial entanglement) or something else.
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Qt has been FOSS (LGPL) for quite some time now. There is no longer any sort of commercial entanglement.
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In any event, because FIRST would need to train people I figure they need at least some assurance that there is some consistency and that may best be served by 'owning' a fork. Just as Mint has come up a frequent choice in this topic yet it is derived from Ubuntu.
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'owning' a fork seems like a lot of work when they could just pick a stable base (such as debian or centos) and build on top of that.
W/R/T all of the Cyprus issues, are there really *that* many teams that actually use that feature? I know some do, but I feel like 90% of teams don't use it, and most of the teams that do are advanced enough to move to a different platform if necessary (if they're following the rules they have to rewrite everything each year anyways...).