Once Upon a Time, Linux distributions were the "center of the universe" for free and open source software. If you wanted to reach users with your project, the best path to do so was to have your software packaged for the "major" Linux distributions of the time. Today, the world looks a lot different with language-specific package managers, microservices and containers, and so on. What's the role of Linux distributions in today's open source world, and where do we go from here?