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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. 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