Ganging up on redhat..ohBOY!!

[Goosemaster]

As it stands now, the major Distrobution makers Suse, Caldera, Turbolinux and Connectiva S.A are uniting to create the propose "United Linux," with Suse Leading the pack

Obviously competition is good, but there is a downside. Redhat will have all these companies teamed up against it. The main problems is that many analysts see this as a bunch or lighweights ganging up to get the big guy. Obviously this competition is most likely a good thing, but like many , I am wary that Linux will escape into business without regarding its beginnings


What is your take on this?

 

[PG]

I thought they....they as in United Linux....have said that Red Hat would be welcome to join.

 

[spyordie007]

there's also mandrake

not to mention plenty of other good unix-based OS's like BSD and Be

 

[japetto]

Those companys have much in common, so it makes sense. I just don't see it changing the face of Linux yet!

 

[Workin']

I think everyone (all the various Linux distros, that is) should fall in behind Debian. Debian seems to be the only one that already has a firm grip on what a Linux distribution should be - a coherent piece of work instead of just a collection of packages stuck together, which is what Red Hat and to a lesser degree Mandrake feel like.

Debian's rules for packages make life so much easier, you never (or very, very, rarely) have to worry about stuff getting put in the wrong place or any other weirdness. And apt/dselect is the most rational package management scheme I've seen. RPM seems like such a kludge in comparison. Now if Debian would just pick up the pace a little bit on moving 'woody' to their stable distribution and catching up on a few other laggard packages it would be perfect.

I guess my point is that Debian already has all the stuff in place to be what United Linux is trying to be.