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Linux Vendors to Standardize on Single Distribution

Posted by Hemos on from the one-ring-to-bind-them dept.

Jon James writes "eWeek is reporting that a number of Linux vendors will announce on Thursday that they have agreed to standardize on a single Linux distribution to try and take on Red Hat's dominance in the industry. " The vendors in question are SuSe, Caldera, Conectiva, and Turbolinux. However, as the article also points out - Red Hat has a very well established lead in the corporate market - and Sun's decision to create Yet Another Linux Distribution (Sun Linux! Now With McNealy Vision!) will make the waters even more muddy.

3 of 455 comments (clear)

  1. why would sun make their own version of linux? by devzerous · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    just way too many linux distros out there

  2. Debian? by pstreck · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Stay true to GNU go Debian!

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    Later,
    Phil
  3. Re:LSB is the real key issue by Tommy_S · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What the f**k is an LSB?? It seems like more and more lately when I read Slashdot I feel like I'm swimming in a giant bowl of Campbell's Alphabet Soup. I think some of you all are just pathetically lazy typists and the rest of you all are trying to sound elite. Guess what. I'm not impressed and I really really doubt many other slash dotters are impressed either. If you want to use abbreviations for everything under the sun, fine. But if you want anybody to bother reading your post and grasping your point, at least spell it out the first time.