Due to the very essence of open sourced software, funding it can be pretty complicated. You can’t just charge for free (as in speech) software, because someone would just make a fork of it for free (as in beer). One way that a lot of projects make their money it through donations. I am going to give my guidelines for what I consider the best Linux distro’s to donate to, and who (in my opinion) I think are some of the Linux distro’s that deserve a donation the most.
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Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word “Linux” in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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+1 for NixOS. I have donated to them this year and plan to do it again as long as they keep up the remarkable world in the effort towards a declarative and reproducible system!