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are community based distros stable or only corp ones?
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it's amazing to see it still go on strong despite the police killing its founder and leader.
I hadn't heard about that. Do you have a link with more info?
He tweeted about being physically and sexually assaulted by police before he committed suicide.
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/prominent-programmer-dies-in-apparent-suicide-after-violent-encounter-with-san-francisco-police/
i'm surprised that there are any articles out there considering that it was over 10 years ago and the cause of death is going to be determined on whether or not you trust the police
this article has enough breadcrumbs to lead you into requisite rabbit holes that'll help you understand why there's controversy around his death: https://thehackernews.com/2015/12/debian-ian-murdock-died.html