Re: four distros into one

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:26:08PM -0500, Gary wrote:
> If you have been following ./ or linuxtoday, it seems like 4 companies,
> SuSE, TurboLinux, Conectiva, and ?.. have joined together to put out one
> combined distro for the business / enterprise market.  Originally, it
> was stated to offset RH's market share, but subsequent announcements
> seem to soften that position..  

Caldera was the other one.

I'm not sure about Conectiva, but the rest have had major financial
problems recently.  They can't afford to maintain a distribution
anymore, and at least Caldera and TurboLinux don't have the people.
Caldera and TurboLinux have both turned their focus away from the
distributions anyway.

As all of those distributions are at least somewhat Red Hat-based, I
would think it would make a *lot* of sense for them to stop trying to
differentiate themselves from Red Hat.  They should just build off of
Red Hat's stable distribution and track Rawhide.  Let Red Hat worry
about paying (most of the) developers.

Steve
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