lkml.org 
[lkml]   [1999]   [Jan]   [9]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: us.kernel.org mirroring inconsistency
On 6 Jan 1999, david parsons wrote:
> But Red Hat isn't the only distribution out there.
>
> ____
> david parsons \bi/ The idea of redhat being the `official' version of Linux
> \/ is somewhat terrifying.

The idea of someone who can't see the level of market penetration that
Red Hat has in the Linux realm is somewhat terrifying.

Frankly, no other Linux vendor has reached the level of general public
visibility (in North America) as Red Hat. Most trade publications use the
names "Linux" and "Red Hat" interchangably.

I'm not passing judgement here; good or bad, it's a fact that Red Hat
really is a key decision-maker in what the average end-user sees or has
available to them.

(What would -really- be interesting to me would be to see a comparison of
deployments by each major Linux vendor. Overseas, I'm betting that SuSE is
far ahead of Red Hat (vice-versa here), with Debian being at a rather
constant level across the board, but that's just a guess.)

--
Edward S. Marshall <emarshal@logic.net> [ What goes up, must come down. ]
http://www.logic.net/~emarshal/ [ Ask any system administrator. ]

Linux labyrinth 2.2.0-pre4 #1 Sun Jan 3 13:28:42 CST 1999 i586 unknown
9:45pm up 4 days, 6:26, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:49    [W:0.064 / U:0.044 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site