"LinuxOne" files for an IPO

ColPanek writes "Surprise: The newest planned Linux-related IPO is not VA Linux Systems or LinuxCare, but a company called LinuxOne, which apparently has been shipping its own distro since way back in September 1999 ... This summary of their preliminary prospectus says LinuxOne didn't disclose any underwriters for the proposed offering."

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quick get the bandwagon

[el_diablo]

linux one's website looks like a my first html experiment. i wouldn't even bbuy a distro from the these jokers let alone invest in their 'failure waiting to happen' future. I wonder if their mother's know they are having an IPO. dont you need to be like 17 or something.

Let's see...

[mrsam]

... Company has existed since March, 1999.

... Their web site is a total joke.

... Their web server is a stock Red Hat Linux box. They don't even serve their pages off their own alleged Linux distribution.

... Despite their claim of being a US company, linuxone.com is registered to some outfit in Austria.

... Despite their so-called "free download", they will ask people for $9.95.

... Their order page is a ... BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHA ... a formmail CGI script. I'll bet a lot of people are perfectly comfortable sending their credit card number over the Internet in clear text.

If this isn't a big joke, I don't know what is.
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Re:Let's see...

[nsanch]

I think I have to point out that they're located at linuxone.net, not linuxone.com, so they're actually based in Mountain View, CA, not Austria.

Still fubar tho.

Talkback on LinuxToday

[TurkishGeek]

I am copying a comment from the talkback section on LinuxToday. This gentleman is really pissed..
Read this:


"I really get sick of all the "SMUG KNOW-IT-ALL" attitude comming from some of the members of the LINUX Community! If you'd do a little research before confirming the opinion of some the folks watching the Linux Commununity (bunch of pimply faced teenagers), you'd know that LINUXONE is doing a Chinese translation of LINUX MANDRAKE Distro for the main-land Chinese market. A huge and very worth-while and possibly very lucritave endeavor. Before you run your mouth, ENGAGE YOUR BRAIN!

Keep in mind: YOU ALWAYS FIND THE MOST STICKS AND STONES UNDER THE TREE WITH BEST APPLES ON IT!

Regards,
George"


Looks like they have managed to find some hardcore fans on the first day..this is even more ridiculous...

The owner is probably a spammer

[AxelBoldt]

A quick deja search revealed this message in which somebody complains about being spammed from a domain owned by Dr. Chiou. The spam is for Windows software.

This is pretty funny.

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Founder seems kind of shady

[pluteus_larva]

The sad opening to the LinuxOne page (once you can finally connect) was written by Dr. Wun C. Chiou, the founder. He also founded a company now known as NetUSA, whose stock is currently hovering around zero.

This sounds like a baaaaaad investment to me...

Fascinating Tidbits...

[XiRho]

1) The banners on the pages of LinuxOne.net are quite obviously created in Word. A Windows product, by MS, no less. What, The GIMP was too complicated?

2) The page was written in Frontpage, or atleast some of the subtle hints, for instance, in the source there is a charset/content type tag, any webmeister who knew these tags existed yet still made such a crappy page could only be doing it in FP, which inserts such tags into any page by default.

3) The webserver they are running isn't Apache, atleast, according to Netcraft, which says it's running "inetd in realloc(): warning, junk pointer too low to make sense"

4) According to the InterNIC whois database, the man who registered Linuxone.net has an address at Netusa.com, a man who can't set up sendmail is going to build a Linux distro worth 28,000,000? Hmmm...

"If you don't use windows then what do you use?"
"FreeBSD."