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Re: RedHat more debian like?



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On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:53:04PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > Since there's still only(?) GPL s/w in RH9, and they give it away
> > for free from FTP, why complain?
> > 
> 
> IBM abandoned its own version of Unix in favor of using GNU/Linux. 

IBM is in the process of abandoning AIX, though you can still get an
IBM eServer with AIX on it from ibm.com.

> RedHat is moving toward business IT and away from consumer/hobbyist
> customers, i.e. getting more like IBM. Maybe RedHat will abandon its
> own distribution and, instead, just put business software on CDs that
> they take to customer sites. Maybe they will include in the set of
> CDs, a set of Debian CDs for the basic stuff that every computer needs.

That might very well eventually be, but forgive me if I'm skeptical at
the moment.

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 .''`.     Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
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