[ale] [Fwd: [suse-oracle-announce] NOVELL: Novell Announces Agreement to Acquire Leading Enterprise Linux Technology Company SUSE LINUX]

Cory T. Echols ctechols at mindspring.com
Tue Nov 4 13:07:56 EST 2003


On 11/04, Chris Fowler wrote:
> In the beginning there was Slackware and a few others.  I guess  in
> the end they'll be Slackware and a few others.

While RedHat, SUSE and company are slowly turning away from the home
hacker market and focusing more on the 'enterprise', there is beginning
to be a quiet explosion in the non-commercial distribution scene.  In
addition to the venerable Slackware and Debian, there is crux, arch,
vector, gentoo, lunar, sourcemage, knoppix, gnoppix, morphix and more.

It may be a little sad that RedHat no longer markets itself to your home
desktop.  In the end, though, distributions shooting for more narrow
segments of the market, rather than trying to please everyone, is a very
good thing.

-- 
Cory T. Echols
ctechols at mindspring.com



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