[TriLUG] self-support alternatives to Novell/SUSE & RHEL

[Chris Bullock]

Maybe with some good financial backing, like Novell, we will see better, 
more mature software hitting the Linux market.  I think this is a step 
forward for the Linux community.
--cgb

Andrew Perrin wrote:

>Not that I want to start a distro war, but what's wrong with Debian?
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>Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
>Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
>clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
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>On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Magnus wrote:
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>>It's becoming increasingly apparent that the community needs an
>>RPM-based distro that is community driven rather than profit driven.
>>Profit isn't a bad thing, and I wish Red Hat & Novell well in their
>>commercial ventures, but their business models do not serve
>>self-supporting shops.  Many orgs have been winging it with Red Hat
>>Linux (the consumer distro) and have expressed a lack of confidence in
>>the Fedora Project.
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>>While this project doesn't perfectly meet my needs either, I've started
>>participating in the cAos-el project ( http://www.caosity.org/ ) which
>>is basically taking RHAS 2.1 and augmenting it from there.  I'm
>>personally working on a related project, based on RHEL 3 (for those of
>>you that were following in IRC last night, I've got about 1,000 binary
>>RPM's done now).  Anyway the goal is to have an umbrella organization
>>for packaging up an enterprise class distribution with long life
>>cycles.  There is considerable financial support coming from some big
>>names to make this project happen.
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>>I've only just signed on yesterday so I don't know all the ins and outs
>>of the project yet.  I'm just raising it as one alternative to all of
>>the whining aimed at Red Hat (and now Novell) which I too am guilty of.
>>  There is already quite a lot of activity in this distro, despite what
>>the sparse web site would suggest, so check out the mailing lists & IRC
>>channel to learn more.
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>>I know with Windows we weren't empowered to do much more than b*tch
>>when we were handed changes that we didn't like.  This is Open Source.
>>Each and every one of us is empowered to fix things we don't like.
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>>C. Magnus Hedemark
>>http://trilug.org/~chrish
>>"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not
>>bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man." -
>>Mark Twain
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