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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:too late? by joestar · · Score: 1, Troll


    >Basically, there already is a standard distro. It's called Red Hat. >Like it or not, Red Hat is a de facto standard in the all-important >workstation and server markets. Mandrake and other popular >distros are already based on it.

    Where did you see Mandrake is based on Red Hat? did you try it? Not the same install, not the same environments... Your statement is pure lie.

  2. Re:Red Hat's dominance in the industry by BlowCat · · Score: 1, Troll

    They are not purely OS companies. Neither are Microsoft, Apple, Palm and WindRiver. QNX may count, but they are not as big as RedHat AFAIK.