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Over the years, I have started many projects, and left many of them unfinished. It’s a pattern I recognize. I will start off enthusiastic, even obsessive about a topic, then drop off working on it. Why do I do this? It’s easy to say “boredom” or “laziness”, but I suspect it’s something worse: fear. Fear of being successful. Fear of being responsible for a creation. Fear of looking foolish. I say “suspect” because I’m also uncertain any of those are the full story....

Like many things, Mere Linux has a sort of personality. Various decisions have molded its shape, its structure, its feel. Simplicity was already mentioned in the Direction post. Here are a couple more. No Systemd Mere Linux does not and will not use systemd. There’s many reasons why, but the most fundamental one is that it breaks the principle of Simplicity. The author of the excellent s6 suite of packages says it well:...

Up to now, development in Mere has focused on laying out its foundation. Much of that was discovering what Mere is, what makes it different. At times that has led to indecision, and that slows progress. In the meantime, some of the ideas and chosen tools have sparked interest. But Mere’s usability has been low, as ideas and concepts took priority in development over usability. So now, to build some adoption, the project is re-focusing efforts to release a stable and usable first version....