Net Llama! wrote: > dep wrote: > >> begin Michael Scottaline's quote: >> | NOT good news. I've never used Turbo, but their failure [if true], >> | while not totally unexpected, contributes to a sense that the >> | "business model" for OSS might ultimately be doomed. >> | I know some will argue that by it's very nature, OSS will survive >> | (Debian, Slack, and others). But developers have to eat and as >> | "employers" fail, the plight of some becomes more perplexing. >> | let's hope the bleeding stops here. >> >> it won't. the big, master shakeout has been expected for some time. >> turbo was the distro with the most to gain from unitedlinux -- my >> guess is that they'll stay alive in some form, if just as the >> far-eastern sales office of unitedlinux. if unitedlinux survives, >> which right now i'd say is a mighty big if. (actually, not just right >> now -- it's been doomed from the start, imho, because of its "screw >> you" attitude toward the existing base of desktop users and >> developers, something that is, unfortunately, epidemic in linuxland.) >> >> the real question is, when the smoke clears it will be red hat, its >> sidekick mandrake, and who else among commercial distros? > > > lycoris maybe. and that Collins' distro :)
Gentoo is non-commercial, and shows no indication of changing. There's Xandros (remade Corel Linux), Lindows is sort of a half-distro, so maybe it can be counted on the list? _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
