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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.

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  1. Gutentag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Two midgets go to Atlantic City and gamble all night. They hit it big with every bet and are up thousands of dollars. To celebrate they get piss drunk and find two hookers to go back to their suite. As they enter the suite each midget gives a wink and takes a hooker to his room. The first midget takes off his clothes...gets into bed...and is just his getting ready to fool around when he hears through the wall a loud...
    One-Two-Three-UUUUGGGHHHH, pause, One-Two-Three-UUUUGGGHHHH, pause, One-Two-Three-UUUUGGGHHHH. The next morning rolls around and the two midgets are having breakfast. One midget turns to the other and asks - "So how was your night?" - 'Terrible...I was so piss drunk I wasn't able to get it up for the first time in my life, but it certainly sounds like you had a wild night'- "Why do say that?" - 'Come on...I heard you all night long through the wall...One-Two-Three-UUUUGGGHHHH, One-Two-Three-UUUUGGGHHHH, One-Two-Three-UUUUGGGHHHH'. The other midget looking all pissed says "Yeah...I couldn't get on the bed!

  2. Re:To be honest... by OSSTwitSpotter · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This deserves to be modded up but alas I have no modpoints because Slashcode SUCKS!

  3. Re:That's Slashdot... by hawk · · Score: 3, Offtopic
    >Slashdot and eWEEK are insider sites, information
    >that is published here is not really published in
    >the general / popular media sense.


    Once upon a time that was true.


    As of a couple of years ago, it's rare to find technical announcements on slashdot that were not in that morning or the prior day's Wall Street Journal.


    Of course, here in my exile, the WSJ doesn't usually make it until the afternoon, so I can't tell you if this one is in it today or not . . .


    hawk

  4. Re:Debian perfect as a standard. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    liar, dselect sucks balls. dpkg and apt-get do rule though, but they are completed by aptitude and possibly synaptic

  5. Re:awww by TheTomcat · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    son of a..
    hit submit instead of preview..

    that SHOULD read:

    awwww. No more playing:
    find / -name [some_daemon config file]

    (-:

    S

  6. In Other news by barnaclebarnes · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Slashdot member barnaclebarnes posted a comment that he intended to post a comment on Thursday.

    /b

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