Trouble at Linux Mint — and beyond

> One solution might be to move a bit towards to BSD-like model with OS core maintained by the distribution and
>relying more or less on the upstream to keep the software secure. I don't know if this would be actually a good
> solution - it would move the responsibility from the distribution maintainers to users and upstream.

there are only a handful of BSDs, maybe it would indeed be better if the number of Linux distributions would shrink instead of grow, so the work would be, at least potentially, a bit more concentrated and not spread too thin.