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Turbolinux Not Dead Yet

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-seems-odd dept.

Abdul Nabi writes "I found this article on Linux Today which is a response from Turbolinux to the recent rumors of a shutdown. The responds contends that they are restructuring rather than shutting down." Ya know, I can't think of a single person that I know that runs Turbolinux. Maybe that has something to do with their problems.

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  1. if they had a business model ... by dlasley · · Score: 3, Interesting

    giving them any market share outside of the pacific rim, turbolinux might have a small following of users in the u.s. and europe desiring proven IA-64 support (they were first to the linux market) or a really nice stable desktop for application development (ok, so no one i know personally ...). i get the impression they are part of united linux because of the strength of their usability - but SuSE is so gosh-darn usable i don't see that being their contribution to the group. their focus on the rim and a largely marginalized sector of this century's growth in professional and business computing is going to make it tough for them to make it on their own or as part of united linux.

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  2. These comm. distro troubles are not surprising. by Krapangor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    While competition is a good thing, too much competition in a small market will kill some of the competitors.
    I wonder how many commercial distros will be left in some years. RedHat, Suse, Debian of course, but others ?
    Well, you'll have a steady flow of small/niche distros appearing and going bankcrupt soon after. But I doubt we'll see any other big wonks.

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  3. "Slashpot, Trolls Wrong Again" - AP Wire Report by fdisk3hs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Turbolinux is dead, eh? Then why is their distribution preinstalled on servers from these manufacturers:

    IBM x135, xSeries
    Gateway
    Compaq Proliant
    HP (duh) tc2110 rc7100
    NEC
    Hitachi
    Fujitsu
    SGI

    They are also working with these manufacturers to customize code in the kernel and various apps to increase performance / reliability under heavy load under specific configurations for specific applications.

    This whole discussion is absurd, don't think it's time to retire the Turbolinux icon yet, Captain Burrito.

    Google search Turbolinux+preinstalled+server would give you a free clue, but then what would everyone do with all their spare time...

    Why aren't you people coding?

    BTW I was using Turbolinux as a desktop before I relegated the machine to more mundane tasks, and describing the distro as 'horrible' is just silly. I actually found it much more flexible at install time than Slackware (in 2.2.x days), although with the five-disk-Slack install now there are lots of module options etc...

    Home users trolling about what is largely a server distribution is again, silly (slaps your wrist)...

    fdisk3hs