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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. Self-fulfilling prophecy? by quantaman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From the sounds of the article TurboLinux wasn't doing so well to begin with. Even if this story turns out to be false it might still cause TurboLinux's stock to nosedive completely killing them off for real :(

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  2. WTF by bogie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Conventional wisdom has suggested for some time that none of the Linux distributions, perhaps not even Red Hat, will survive long-term and of course all of the successive business failures that have happened among the Linux set call into question the commercial viability of the open source model. "

    Umm, what the fuck is she smoking. So I guess Redhat et al should just pack it up?

    BTW if that's "conventional wisdom" what is Linuxgram going to do based on a business model that reports on these companies?

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  3. Rumor has it Microsoft will buy Yahoo by cpeterso · · Score: 5, Interesting


    Of course, Fucked Company does have a "story" about Microsoft's plans to buy Yahoo. Why isn't that also on the Slashdot front page?

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  4. I work in the building by BigMacDaddy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And the rumor here has been that they are going under and moving out by the end of the month.

  5. SuSE will likely survive in the end. by Nick+Driver · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In the end, I think we all know it's going to be Redhat though. A shame as I'm a SuSE guy.

    I'm a SuSE user as well. I believe they will still be around after the "survival of the fittest" weeds out the lame distros, not only becausue they have a finely polished distro, but also because they are the darling of, and are supported by Big Blue.

  6. Sorry for the employees, but... by fmaxwell · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I bought TurboLinux and can honestly say it was the worst distro I ever installed. Nothing worked correctly. Tech support was abysmal.

    Of course, that's just my experience and maybe someone with a newer distro had better luck.