On Thursday 30 May 2002 11:26 pm, you wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2002 19:42:11 -0400 > > et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 30 May 2002 06:42 pm, you wrote: > > > On Thursday 30 May 2002 06:26 pm, Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: > > > > Both in a corporative sense, in how it will/could affect other > > > > linux distributions, and technically if it will be of any benefit > > > > to Linux codebase as a whole... > > > > > > > > Wooky > > > > > > My opinion of United Linux. > > > > > > Four sick dogs don't make one well dog. > > > > well said... > > > > just a nother group to speak out about their personal ideas of what > > should be a standard. > > Uuuuu on this one I don't agree. The standard they are striving for is > the LSB .... this is a standard that even Mandrake has been behind. > (From the conversation I had with someone from Mandrake at Linux World > They see it as very beneficial to all.) why another group for the same thing, why not announce they back and will strive to clairify the LSB? we already have LSB, why start a new lsb2?
I tend towards agreement with > this standard. It pulls together the FHS POSIX and a slew of other > standards in Unix. Then adds to it the needs specific to Linux. As for > 4 sick dogs. Connectiva is not sick. They are after all the number 1 > selling distro in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.(ie south of the > US/Mexican border) SuSe for all of their problems in the US, are strong > with IBM and big Iron and Making inroads with Large German Concerns. > Turbo lost out in the US but still remains on of the best CJVK distro's > in Asia. Caldera.... well they are burdened with Ransom Love (*cheesy > grin*) Seriously though Caldera has SCO Unix and although it lost out to > Sun there is a large and very useful code base there. > > Winners IBM HP/Compaq and the Linux community. (distro's included) > > Losers M$ and to a lesser degree Sun. M$ loses big time because it gives > Intel and the other chip makers more reason to look at Linux compliance. > (IBM carries big weight) IBM compatible could become a buzz word for > software like it was in the 80's for PC's. (It will be nice to hear > people stop saying PC when they mean a cheap box running windwoze.) > > Big Winners .... You and I. Linux goes mainstream. Hardware starts > paying attention to both Linux and standards.(Sorry Western Digital) All > around we win. Is RedHat worried.... why else would they suddenly start > filing patents. They are tired of being used as a jumping off point for > new distro's. > > James
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