Which Linux distributions do you use?

[rbmj]

Originally Posted by techhelpbb

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.

Qt has been FOSS (LGPL) for quite some time now. There is no longer any sort of commercial entanglement.

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.

'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...).