Garuda Linux is developed by a consortium of technology companies and academic institutions across 17 cities in India, led by the Indian Government‘s Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).
Is it true?
Actually, I have been quite browsing around and I haven’t found very detailed information on governance and mission.
I have found a link to this video https://youtu.be/2YoOIJ2p7tk in For anyone interested in the history of Garuda
but it is private and I don’t have access (I don’t have a gmail/google account either).
Sad to see that this video is set to private, it was a really nice one. It basically explained first evolutions and announcements based on forum posts the people found. Really cool.
I don’t know what Garuda Linux they are talking about in the first lines of the article you linked, but if it’s our Garuda Linux, it’s completely wrong
No companies nor institutions are involved. That’s a blatant lie
First release was in 2020, iirc
I wonder where they sourced those information from…
That answer sounds like something a very unreliable AI dreamt up. Nothing could be further from the truth. The distro was founded by @SGS and @librewish 4ish years ago. From the very start, Garuda has been developed and maintained by only a small team of dedicated individuals.
There is, and has never been any corporate involvement with Garuda. As a matter of fact I think it would be safe to say that up until this point the distro has tried very hard to avoid corporate and financial entanglements of any kind. Garuda has been solicited by companies/individuals in the past for partnerships to sell Garuda laptops or merchandise. All of these overtures have been turned down because there was never much upside for the distro to participate in this. In all likelihood it was felt there was a far higher probability of besmirching the distro’s good reputation by involvement with shoddy profit seeking companies. In actuality, I think you’d be hard pressed to find a distro that has tried harder to avoid being beholden to corporate interests.
Garuda deliberately operates on a shoestring budget to avoid having to go begging for money from corporate sponsors or our users. For quite some time our distro did not even accept donations from private individuals. It wasn’t until the distro’s popularity exploded that we actually began accepting donations from our users to cover our added server expenses.
Garuda is entirely unmotivated by seeking financial profit. As long as our server expenses are covered by our users, that is all we are looking for. Money, often creates more problems than it solves as there are many tax implications when you sell anything even as minor as T shirts or mugs. Financial profit is not one of Garuda’s goals, so don’t expect to see the corporatization of Garuda any time soon.
