I need the advise from the community, in case you know more.
In the past month I have undertaken the task to promote Obarun and its new set of tools, 66. The later April release of isos with all bugs sorted out, seemed as the the right time to do a new introduction/release announcement. Somehow any release announcement made is crosschecked by users with distrowatch.
After an initial contact with distrowatch inquiring how do we go about submitting new information for the Obarun entry, there have been 3 attempts (main contact and editor who responded) with all the changes we wanted. Although it is clear that someone looked at the info sent, the only thing changed was the graphic/logo.
There has been NO RESPONSE, and there have been two release dates published (one was 4/18 and one is 5/7) since then without any of the changes we asked but continuing to publish incorrect/insufficient data.
Nobody asked for money, nobody responded, even though on the last message to the editor it is directly asking for someone to acknowledge receipt of the data sent. Nada!
If anyone has any clues of how they work and why would this happen I am open to suggestions. My style would have been to accuse them publicly and in all possible mediums of been biased towards systemd distros that want to erase Obarun and similar projects of the face of the earth, but Obarun is not mine to choose how to deal with such issues.
At least a nasty note "either get the information right or don't publish Obarun at all" is necessary in my mind, but I refrain from such impulses.
I recently was reviewing various sites and their potential for promotion (suggestions are welcome) and run into this stomach upsetting trash of a website
https://www.linuxjournal.com
The first thing that hit me were the huge corporate names, such as Lockheed/Martin hiring RH to do consulting on fighter jet systems optimization (consider this a money laundering operation funneling NSA money to RH, which IBM didn't allow it to pass by unnoticed). Fighter jets don't run on systemd, I am sure. Even MS is mentioned several times. If you run a search on OpenRC, runit, s6 on that site you get 0 hits. Even sysv or sysvinit is not mentioned anywhere. But systemd is. You can guess the distros that the site portrays as "the only linux distros". Ever since systemd appeared the web has been flooded with biased sites that only display "mainstream" and provocatively disregard everything else.
Am I surprised? No. When you have users telling you that "if I can't get my game to run here I will go back to my systemd distro" you can hardly blame the shit providers and not the shit eaters. Was Snowden discredited as revealing lies? Did anyone discredit wikileaks for publishing lies? Has anything changed in peoples minds?
I've been playing around with OpenBSD recently, and past its potential for use of a router or firewall I can't force myself to like it. Irrelevant? I don't know.