On Fri, 31 May 2002 07:34:09 -0400
et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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?

>From what I've read they don't intend to re-write the LSB but to pool
efforts to comply with it.  This seems to be a unified message from all
concerned ... Even Ransom Love.. although I do take what he says with a
keg of salt. After all how many years have Unix people been arguing
about /opt vs /usr/local  (I don't care I just want to know.)  Half my
kde3 is in /usr the other half in /opt and I'm going nuts trying to get
it all to work.  I'd love to see this kind of stuff put to rest forever.

> 
> 
> 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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