I believe Xandros (The folks who bought up the Corel distro after Microsoft "saved" Corel) is STILL Canadian. Stampede Linux was Candaian as well (though I don't think they're maintained any longer). Then there's QNX, ....but that's a whole different ball game i.e. not Linux (Posix, fun, AND Candadian).
Marcel On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 11:45, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 25 June 2003 08:42, Roy Souther wrote: > > Has anyone every looked into how much Canadian content is in some of the > > Linux distributions? > > hrm.. that's a tough one.. i know there are a lot of Free Software hackers in > Canada, however, that contribute to a wide array of projects.. i've seen > reports (such as last year's EU sponsered FLOSS report) that show that ~2% > of Free Software developers are from Canada.. the numbers may be larger or > smaller than that, though, due to the distribution of respondents to that > study (which they also acknowledge), but i think that number is more correct > than wrong... > > > What distributions are made in Canada? > > i know of a couple of distros that are no longer around that were made in > Canada (Corel Linux, MaxOS).. the only one i'm aware of that is still going > is Libranet... > > there's also OpenBSD, of course, though that isn't Linux it is Free Software. > > - -- > Aaron J. Seigo > GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 > > KDE: The 'K' is for 'kick ass' > http://www.kde.org http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE++d+n1rcusafx20MRAsVvAKCpn740HMJtMkBtFnk5Y6SJbSP5HgCfYgnM > OsLpKZMksw0mqVwAIAkUHRg= > =u94b > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Marcel Lecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
