SuSE CEO's Two-Distro World

FrankoBoy writes "CRN has an interview with SuSE CEO Richard Seibt in which he claims such things as 'Linux means two companies: Red Hat and SuSE, and nobody else.' Another example of this kind of corporatespeak can be found in another interview he did with ZDNet last week. DistroWatch has an article about all this in its current weekly newsletter."

Comments

Surely he meant to say

[earthforce_1]

RedHat and SuSE and SCO!!!

Re:Surely he meant to say

[mindriot]

What?!? There's only two - SCO and SCO, nobody else!!

Expect to be sued.

Yours, Darl McBride

:)

Yeah, right

[phr2]

And the Internet means two companies, AOL and MSN, nobody else.

Re:Gentoo?

[Anonymous Coward]

Were gentoo zealots mentioned anywhere in the "most zealous zealot" poll?

I think they deserved their very own poll option.

Placing my bets on non commercial distros.

[niko9]

I'll stay with the turtle (Debian), 'cause we all know what happens at the end. The turtle poops all over the hare (SuSe). /me makey jokey joke/

Re:A bit inflammatory, no?

[Bingo Foo]

the shrieking in just the first 10 comments is completely misplaced.

On Slashdot? You're kidding, right?

Re:yep, Suse is cool.

[EverDense]

No free softare based system can be as ugly or as abusive as Microsoft was.

Oh yes it can!

Just wait until I'm in charge.
When you see the sort of stuff I'm gonna pull, it'll make Microsoft seem like a benevolent-software-monopoly-dictatorship.

Re:makes me think twice...

[Eric Ass Raymond]

Does anyone actually run SuSE Linux outside of Europe?

Well, based on the replies in this thread I'd say that the people who try it will, in general, switch over to Gentoo.

It is therefore highly recommended that you do not try SuSE - unless you like to have casual sex and get your kicks out of risking getting syphilis.

MIHGT I RECOMMENDD GENTOOO?

[scotch]

Hellow fellow intranet user. I couldn't help but notice you mention [insert subject]. Might I recommend that you look at GENTOO instead? Your choice of [insert application] will most likely run 100 to 200% faster with a custome tweaked GENTOO distro. Furthermore, GENTOO provides the best in [insert area], [insert area], and [insert area], which I can see from your discussion of [insert subject] that you are interested in. If I can not convince you with technical arguments, perhaps philosophical ones will do instead: [insert product] is the moral equivalent of the wares sold by [insert despised commercial software company]. By supporting [insert non-GENTOO distro], you are supporting [insert despised CEO] and futhering the cause of evil. Just remember to add --funroll-all-the-loopies and --fomit-instructions and your GENTOO boxen will be super l33t like mine!

Good Day

Re:What other companies are there?

[c0dedude]

I'm sorry, i can't resist commenting that you know you're company's doing well when they're about to not be bankrupt anymore. :-)

Suse dies with their UnitedLinux partner SCO

[Anonymous Coward]

given the recent SCO events, UnitedLinux is dead.
But Suse's future depended entirely on a success of UnitedLinux. Suse is in many respects like SCO: they don't really believe in open source, but only in closed source pay-ware. Thus, the suse administration program YaST is closed source. In the end, they will sink with their partner SCO.
Eventually, the distro world is gonna be:

- RedHat (corporate users who think they need phone support)

- Mandrake All people who want to use linux but don't want to edit config files by hand

- Gentoo All those who love editing config files in emacs and vi, and to spend their time compiling kernels and wanking on how fast their PC compiles it

- Debianfor all those who think it should be named gnu instead of linux and that Stallman is good and Linus is bad, and who choose their distro on ideology rather than on rational aspects