Bruce Perens on UserLinux and Ubuntu

SDenmark writes "Ever wondered what happened to UserLinux, and how it's faring now that Ubuntu has stolen the spotlight? Linux Format has an interview with Bruce Perens, founder of UserLinux, the Open Source Initiative and Linux Standard Base. Perens discusses the impact of Ubuntu, how industry bodies are helping open source and why figureheads are important for the Free Software community."

Comments

I used to use aol cds..

[Anonymous Coward]

Now I use Ubuntu cds for coasters.

I can see it now.

[slashbob22]

Fear and Loathing in La SuSE (They've got the lizards, just need some product placement).
Honey I Shrunk the Embedded Ubuntu.
Star Wars XV: Attack of the CentOS (Didn't this happen in Tuttle, OK?)
Miss Fedora Universe (Make the Geeks go crazy for models in Fedoras)
A Beautiful Distro (A Linspiring movie)

OK, I am done. But why not have product placement, much like Apple has done in popular culture for the past few years.

Best

[AlterTick]

This is all too confusing. Can't someone just cut to the chase and tell me what the best Linux distro is?

Re:Times change, people don't

[mccalli]

...my work PC suddenly runs CentOS (where did that one come from?).

Tuttle.

Cheers,
Ian

Re:Times change, people don't

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

I'll make the switch when they stick to one for more than a year, until then, I'll use Windows and BSD.

Alas, poor wretch. Then misfortune shall be thy lot.

Re:Money talks

[DrWhizBang]

latest version has PAM older than .79 and the latest is .99, the default GCC installed (GCC 4.0) from the default debian repositories cannot build executables, /etc/security/console.perms is missing, /etc/ld.so.conf is missing ...

For all it's faults atleast things work right with Fedora Core and I can compile mythtv with miniminal effort

I know! My wife said the same thing when I installed Ubuntu on my home computer. "WTF! PAM is really old! We can't let the kids use this!"

I mean really, compiling mythtv is absolutely necessary on a desktop distro. How are the newbs going to get past that? Having no ld.so.conf is definitely not userfriendly.