On Thursday 30 May 2002 22:07, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: > >>Anybody got a clue why Mandrake isn't involved with this "United > >> Linux" stuff? > >> > >>Have yet to see a press release from Mandrake about the topic... > > > >Better off away from those losers. > > I'll agree with that... > > >It's a business thing, completely ignoring desktop users. > > True, but doesn't the concept of having a common base, on which vendors > can certify their products once have an advantage?
Certainly, let's hope that we'll all go along with those two 3-character standards to achieve that. We should all have a common base anyway, but there is a tendency growing with all the distributions (this one too) of a bit too much fiddling around that base (libification and all the other *ications). Distro personality should be expressed further up from the core base. > > On of the main concerns I'm hearing from enterprise customers against > Linux is that it's so fragmented. Perhaps this will help to get Linux > more accepted for the enterprise. Yes. But if we were all like Debian, unwaveringly sure we were right and so righteous, nobody would want us. Open software is mostly done for free by free spirits, so there is bound to be diversity. I think these enterprise people would lean more toward linux if its base were more guaranteed standard and the frills were just on the edges -- which is roughly what Caldera and Co are saying. So what they are doing is good but the motivation for it is bad, and the people at the top are probably incapable of pulling it off anyway. -- Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 511MB Kernel: 2.4.18-6mdk-pnr-win4lin KDE: 2.2.2 Qt: 2.3.1 up 1 hour 46 minutes. ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~
