LinuxOrbit Looks At Libranet GNU/Linux 2.7

GonzoJohn writes "Linux Orbit has reviewed Libranet GNU/Linux 2.7: Other Linux distribution companies have tried to create commercial Linux products based on Debian GNU/Linux, but few have achieved long term success. Progeny Linux comes to mind as a commercial Linux distribution company whose Linux product met with good reviews, but couldn't remain in business. Libranet is a rare exception to this rule. Libranet GNU/Linux has been around quite a while and continues to build a devoted Linux user base on a commercial product based on Debian GNU/Linux. With their most recent release of Libranet GNU/Linux 2.7, Libranet continues to improve on an already solid Linux distribution."

Comments

Re:slackware

[schon]

I had something like 5 kernel panics over the course of 6 months under Slack, none so far in 8 months under Debian

What did you change?

I've been running Slackware for 5 years (on a couple of dozen servers, and on my home and work desktops and laptop), and have never _once_ had a kernel panic, in any version (from 3.0, up to and including Slack 8.1)

Performance was fine too - I don't know what you mean by "significantly better performance", perforance doing what?

crontab entry to do updates from security.debian.org can do them unassisted

You've never run an important box then, because no sysadmin worth his salt would ever trust something as critical as security updates to an automated process. You manually test each update on an offline machine to make sure nothing breaks (like maybe the config file changed?), then deploy it on the live machines. Trusting software install to a script is just asking for trouble.

Just a reminder... Xandros due out shortly

[mbourgon]

And another commercial distro, Xandros, based off of Corel Linux 3 (which is, in turn, based off Debian), is due out in the next 3 weeks.

http://www.xandros.com/anticipated.html

"Our manufacturer indicates the product should be available for shipping in the week of October 21."

Uh, Progeny *is* still in business

[Overfiend]

[Sorry, repost. I had cookies turned off in this browser so my login didn't work. Please mod down the Anonymous Coward version as redundant, not this one; thanks.]

Progeny Linux comes to mind as a commercial Linux distribution company whose Linux product met with good reviews, but couldn't remain in business.

I guess I have Santa Claus to thank for the paychecks I've been getting every two weeks for the past 2 years plus, then.

Progeny did discontinue its Progeny Debian product, but we remain in business and continue to do interesting things, IMO.