There was also Storm Linux produced by Stomrix in Vancouver. It was Debian based and unfortunately went under (I think?). They offered a regular Linux distro as well as other products like a firewall. Like I said...shame they aren't around any more. I still have one of there disks...but almost 3 yrs old!

Marcel Lecker wrote:
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:

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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.

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