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United Linux vs. Red Hat
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| Boulware5 2002-05-30, 11:16 am |
| You think Red Hat is getting like M$ in terms of market dominance? | |
| The VMS Kid 2002-05-30, 11:35 am |
| I'm not sure. But I know that they are a business and like all businesses, the bottom line is really what they are interested in. I think this is a good move though. From what I have read, the individual distros won't lose their distinctive "flavor", so will be able to retian their supporters, but they will try to band together so that they each serve different functions that make Linux more usable to the end user and as a viable platform for applications by adhering to the LSB. Red Hat is almost synonymous with Linux and the others were hurting because of their lack of marketing muscle. this move may change that and encourage more competition between them and Red Hat resulting in a better product in the long run. And once software vendors see that they have a certain "stable" target to shoot for when porting apps, they may be more likely to include Linux ports as well as those for Windows and Apple machines. HP and Sun were supposedly working on their own Linux distros . . . HP had decided on Debian and Sun was going to create their own flavor . . . I wonder what impact this will have on their decisions? | |
| The VMS Kid 2002-05-30, 11:39 am |
| It just occured to me, but this might also be a huge boost for the LPI cert . . . | |
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| I agree with you
Red Hat will have a real competitor and will boost the vendor neutral LPI cert
For somebody who study for a cert higher than L+ it think the first choice will be LPI
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Originally posted by RBud
According to this article United Linux is not in competition with Red Hat.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t272-s2111167,00.html
what do you think about this :
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from the article
[B]So UnitedLinux will remain an open-source project?
Absolutely. The only difference is that the UnitedLinux binaries will not freely distributed. People will be able to download the source code and compile their own binaries, but they will not be able to use the UnitedLinux brand [B]
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| cross36 2002-05-30, 10:59 pm |
| Open source, but not freely distributed. What's the deal with that... | |
| The VMS Kid 2002-05-31, 6:53 am |
| I think that it is a ploy to make businesses have faith in them. A lot of businesses still are leery about using a "free" product". They remember that "you get what you pay for". If they charge for it, maybe some suits will have more faith in them. That sounds kind of wacky, but it might be true to a degree. Besides, I doubt if businesses care one iota about Open Source . . . all they are interested in is reliable servers that can be depended on and which they have a hotline to call in case anything goes wrong.
Yeah, they SAY they are not in competition with Red Hat, but somehow I am not sure they mean it. Red Hat is the primo Linux distro in the U.S., the others have suffered by Red Hat's success. I doubt seriously that they would welcome RH in their camp. Although it would be interesting if RH took them up on their offer to join up.  | |
| oracle-dba99 2002-05-31, 1:52 pm |
| Just curious here - anyone has taken the brutal 6 hours test or has plans to take one? | |
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| Linux is getting more interesting every year  | |
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| cross36 2002-06-02, 2:11 am |
| Nice avatar dpx. Also good article especially the dispute against cheapbytes. | |
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