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catcorpse
05-28-2002, 06:57 PM
Eweek (http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701&a=27405,00.asp) has an article that describes how some linux vendors will band together to "take on redhat"

An executive at one of the companies, who declined to be identified, confirmed to eWEEK on Tuesday that the announcement will revolve around a single standardized Linux distribution, but he declined to elaborate ahead of Thursday's announcement.
what it boils down to is that a group of companies will distribute copies around "there local zone". They are still trying to hammer out the deal, but a few of the partners are Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE and Turbolinux. The official press release is going to be this Thursday.

KaraK
05-28-2002, 09:22 PM
this may well be a good move... Linux's various distros can look quite confusing to the novice

frombadtraverse
06-01-2002, 12:41 AM
If they could get Mandrake in there too, would be nice. I mean at least, they could all put the same things in the same directories. Half of my problems when switching distros is finding stuff. (I have the same problem with migration from SuSE 7.3 to 8.0, which shall be done soon)