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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. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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.

  4. 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.