Windriver (a company selling embedded OS called Tornado) recently bought
*all* assets of BSDi (company supporting FREEBSD Development). This
gives Windriver access to BSD source code for them to compete against
new embedded
OS vendors such as RedHat (using Linux as the embedded OS).
Unforetunately, BSDi owns a software publishing company called
WalnutCreek which happens to be Slackware's official publisher.
WalnutCreek directly supports Slackware development.
WindRiver wants to drop the Slackware team since WindRiver cannot use
the Linux tools/source for its typical "closed-source" software or
projects (BSD can be used for such projects...Win2K may right now be
running BSD-based TCP/IP protocol stack/utilities).
Slackware will continue but the lack of support will impact development
of native SPARC and ALPHA versions of LINUX. I hope that Slackware will
be able to find another publisher to help support development.
Ambo
"Ronald Allan B. Henry" wrote:
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> check this out:
>
> http://www.slackware.com/forum/read.php?f=5&i=7887&t=7887
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