Can you Trust Your Favorite Linux Desktop to stick around?

[irv]

In case anyone is interested, here is a really good article I ran across yesterday.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/trust-linux-desktop-stick-around/
There were some interesting videos as well.
Oh, and the one video on Ubuntu brought back memories when I first got into Ubuntu Linux back in 2005. It's hard to believe it is going to be 13 years that I have been using Ubuntu Linux. Even though I changed desktops, I kept the same distro on my main computer.

[ChuangTzu]

All depends on the size of the team, and their dedication as well as the size of the community and their dedication. Slackware for example has a small team that is very dedicated, and a large community that is very dedicated so it has remained for 24 years.... Crunchbang on the other hand had a small team that became less dedicated and a decent size community that was dedicated so it crashed and burned but was forked by the community. Corporate backing helps, but dedication from team and community is more important I think.