Linux Vendors to Standardize on Single Distribution
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I think what they meant was moving towards a more BSD-type development tree... But then again, "centralized development" is kinda vague. It could mean a number fo things, from "adhering to standards" to what you suggest.
I am hoping that what they mean by this, is that the mail queue will be in /var/mail/mailq in all distros and not in /usr/mailq in one distro, /usr/local/mailq in another distro and /var/mailq in the third distro.
Basically if they all adhere to some protocol of standards, they'll be able to produce a number fo distros that are more compatible with each other than ever.
Again, this does not mean that distros not aimed at the corporate market will cease to exist. I am quite confident that Slack will be there for everyone!
It would be nice to get some standard in the filesystem - people keep telling me there is a standard but that doesn't seem to work too well.
What I don't understand is what happens with the regular (non-server) distros of those companies.
When they create a standard for their corporate line - will that also be applied to their seperate desktopdistros?
If it doesn't get applied there it could get even worse than it is already.
That I own 6 (2 more that'll be up soon).
That live at my house, 4 more (soon to be 6 more, but down from 7).
That I adminster, that don't live at my house, 3 more.
That I have accounts on... er, alot.
Actually, take out Caldera from that list, add Solaris, RH 6.2 Sparc, take off Mandy 7.2 as that went away... Slack 8.1 soon, er, LFS in 3 different flavors now, there really isn't much off a difference for me much anymore. Oh, and I've got a dual-boot OpenBSD machine now, and Free 4.4 gave way to 4.5. I'm installing Mandy 8.2 on a spare partition tonight while I hack on a new server.
Oh hell, this comes up too much, maybe I should just make one of those cutsie web pages.
Back to the subject. As far as the basic product of Linux goes, the point I was trying, sarcastically, to get accross, was that the product of Linux that each of these distros produces every release are always on par with one another and usually a good leap ahead of the previous, over and over, and what's really pushing that forward isn't just the hacker mentality, but the market competition. As long as there is no dominant body, there will always be a release better than the last one, and not like Windows where the phrase is always, not nearly as much of a piece of crap as the last one.
I had to shut down a couple of machines last week until I can get back home and set some of them up in different rooms. I have a problem with breakers tripping in the house now with them all up.
I think the compitition is great for the future of linux. I doubt that it will be possible to break down RedHat but only make it better.
The other distros will also be better even faster. So if anyone will suffer it will be Microsoft.
Of course there will be lost customers, but there are so many new customers that will be switching over from microsoft, and a lot of them will most likely have more than one distro.
It seems to me that the fact that the distros are free for download that support is going to be the main form of income. And now RedHat is already the leader in certification.
After all a distro is just a distro, linux will always be free.
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