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Has TurboLinux Collapsed?

Posted by timothy on from the and-all-for-one dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "UnitedLinux already is short one founding member. Linuxgram reports that TurboLinux has collapsed." The sources mentioned are all anonymous so far; the TurboLinux website is functioning, and offers no indications that the company isn't also.

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  1. A friend of mine worked for Turbolabs by Twister002 · · Score: 4, Informative

    and he is no longer working there, they've closed the Santa Fe Turbolabs office.

    It looks like Turbolabs is closing all their US offices and trying to sell off their products before they close their Asian offices.

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    "For a successful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled." -Feynman
    1. Re:A friend of mine worked for Turbolabs by Twister002 · · Score: 4, Informative

      PS he was told Monday that they were closing, I had lunch with him on Wednesday.

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      "For a successful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled." -Feynman
  2. Dearth of information by MAXOMENOS · · Score: 5, Informative
    Let's see.

    • Nothing on F***edCompany
    • Nothing on LinuxToday
    • Nothing but rumors on NewsForge
    • Nothing on the TurboLinux website

    Sounds to me like a non-story, or at worst, an indication that their US operation might contract and the company focus might shift to Japan.

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  3. This is for real by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I know somebody who is employed there, and according to them, TurboLinux is going out of biz. They're all waiting for their last paychecks, and apparently employees even had problems with their health insurance not being paid for for the last few weeks.

  4. huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Whats is TurboLinux.... never heard of it.

  5. correction, TurboLINUX not TurboLabs by Twister002 · · Score: 3, Informative

    correction, It looks like TurboLINUX is closing all their US offices. TurboLabs (based in Santa Fe) was a research division. My friend who worked there told me the same info as the article linked to above yesterday at lunch.

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    "For a successful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled." -Feynman
  6. Is TurboLinux public?! by Eric+Green · · Score: 3, Informative

    As far as I know, TurboLinux *HAS* no stock. Their "stock" tanking isn't going to put them out of business. Running out of cash to pay their creditors, on the other hand... well...

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  7. Re:Damn.... by XBL · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wow, what a fucking troll. Caldera is the most-bashed company/distro, and for very little reason. They have contributed much back to the open-source community, and have tried to follow-through on legit businesses practices that they hope will keep their company afloat.

    Their distribution is one of the most stable and coherent of them all. I was sad to see them wanting to do this UnitedLinux crap. They are just trying to survive.

    Idiot.

  8. What is this, fuckedcompany? by Tom7 · · Score: 5, Informative

    If there's no confirmation, and the slashdot editors don't bother to try to confirm themselves, what the hell is the point of posting this? To "scoop" everyone (even though someone else is already carrying the rumor)? Let's save the rumor mongering for fuckedcompany, and (unless it's something really, really interesting) try to report more developed stories on the news sites.

  9. Re:I care by Ilgaz · · Score: 2, Informative

    I guess you don't use windows too much... Every Yahoo made app is strictly linked to IE dll's (for html rendering services) and windows media player dll's...

    No,also I don't think they will bin Linux version of Yahoo messanger, that would be stupid, especially for DOJ stuff :))

    Being an Opera user, I can't describe the discrimination I get from Yahoo. I searched a lot, couldn't find another portal. Let me describe it easily, Yahoo works in HALF for Opera. They even say "unknown browser" on their so-called media wizards lol.

    They bought Launch.com, first thing they did was REMOVE Realplayer option (oh no,don't fucking flame me on that, yes I used it since it worked with my browser) AND making it uncompatible with Opera etc.

    That story... Believe me, can be 90% chance true!