On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 12:48:08PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 29-May-2002 Erich Schubert wrote: > > German users can read: > > http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-29.05.02-000/ > > which states that Calerda, Connectiva, SuSE and TurboLinux will > > cooperate in making a new linux distribution together... > > I wonder why they don't use Debian ;) > > Original article: > > http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=720&a=27405,00.asp > my gut says it will be SuSE with Connectiva's package tools. TurboLinux brings > strong Asian i18n support and Caldera, well who knows what caldera brings. > Maybe extra coders. A healthy dose of anti-GPL sentiment? I have a hard time believing that any good will come of this, unless they intend to still market regionally-branded distros built on top of a common core. I can't imagine that making each of their core markets compete with each other for attention will make for a /better/ product... Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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