[Cross-posted]
The BusinessWeek Online of March 3, 2003 has a large section devoted to Linux:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/03_09/B382203linux.htm
Contents:
The Linux Uprising How a ragtag band of software geeks is threatening Sun and Microsoft--and turning the computer world upside down
Pecked by Penguins So far, Microsoft's attempts to counter the Linux threat have come up short
Commentary: Tech Outfits Should Take Notes
Online Extra: The Big Guys Latch Onto Linux As the startups struggle or burn out, heavyweights such as IBM, Dell, Oracle, and HP are moving quickly to dominate this new market
Online Extra: Red Flags for Red Hat Though the Linux sales-and-support outfit has seen strong recent growth, some analysts think the stock is overvalued
Online Extra: Next from Open Source: Killer Apps? Now, programmers are going beyond operating systems to build business software products based on open code
Online Extra: Before Linux Is on Every Desktop... ...It's more likely to keep making greater strides in single-use areas, such as cash registers, than in consumers' PCs
Online Extra: Sun: It's Not "Linux or Nothing" CEO Scott McNealy answers those who say the free OS threatens his Unix-based products: "A vote for Linux is a vote for Unix"
Online Extra: "Programmers Are Like Artists" Linux expert Bruce Perens on the motives of people who work on open-source software -- and the communities it creates
Hello, Do you think any request to Red Hat to change the name of their distro to Red Hat GNU/Linux will work?
We can try that as it is the most popular distro and the name can reach many people.
Arko
Hello, Do you think any request to Red Hat to change the name of their distro to Red Hat GNU/Linux will work?
We can try that as it is the most popular distro and the name can reach many people.
Well, I don't think RH will bother much. As RMS has pointed out, business firms like Red Hat are trying to cash on the ``popularity factor'' rather than the philosophy behind it & rarely acknowledge the initiative taken by the FSF to create a ``free'' OS & still tell people that ``Linux'' is an OS that was *created* by Linus Torvalds. They just mention the name of the GNU Project at the end of the manuals where they include the GPL - thus bewildering the uninitiated & forcing him to think what on earth ``GNU'' is. IMHO, Mandrake is the only company to use the name GNU/Linux in its manuals & all the treeware. I am really not much confident about big companies like RH & SuSE, which happens to be my distro.
B. Ghose
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The GNU/Linuxer wrote:
Mandrake is the only company to use the name GNU/Linux in its manuals & all the treeware.
There is one distribution which created by a web based community - not a company or a legal entity. The distro is Debian GNU/Linux, and IMHO, it is the most easy to use - I know some of you will laugh at that, but Debian is more stable than all other distros I have used so far.
If 'user friendliness' means configurablity and stability, Debian GNU/Linux is for you.
Learn more about Debian at www.debian.org.
A desktop user's review of debian at http://www.distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-debian
BTW, the GNU community is creating a new kernel called 'hurd'.
Regards, Mahesh T. Pai.
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The GNU/Linuxer