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

Problem with commercial Debian

[Dionysus]

I think the problem with commercial Debian derived distributions is that there are no 'guaranteed' future income. Debian makes it so damn easy to upgrade.

When I used RedHat, I always bought a CD for each upgrade (from 5.0 to 5.1, to 5.2, to 6.0 etc). The reason: upgrading meant manually download individual packages and installing them in the right order. When I recently upgraded from Debian 2.2 to 3.0, all I had to do was change the sources.list, do apt-get update, and apt-get dist-ugprade. All dependencies and installation order was taken care of.

With RedHat (and I suspect other RPM based distributions), they were 'guaranteed' money from me, since I wanted to upgrade. With Debian based distribution, I no longer feel the need to buy a CD to keep current (even on dialup).

Re:Problem with commercial Debian

[messiertom]

With RedHat (and I suspect other RPM based distributions), they were 'guaranteed' money from me, since I wanted to upgrade.

Mandrake (an RPM based distribution) has urpmi, at the simplest level an apt-get for RPM. If I want to upgrade my whole system, I do:

urpmi.update -a
urpmi --auto-select

I can also just update a single package by doing urpmi foopackage; urpmi will even figure out the deps for me and download the packages. This is where Mandrake beats out RedHat, imho (Please Don't Flame Me!). But now I hear RedHat has such a feature... anyone?

Re:These Names Suck

[Otter]

And the number of times this articles says GNU/Linux is more than enough to make me nauseous.

What I'm wondering is why the submitter thought that six "GNU/Linux"'s were necessary, while another six "Linux"'s were allowed to slip through. (Not counting the "Linux Orbit"s and "Progeny Linux".)