Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:56:52 -0600 (CST) | From | "Edward S. Marshall" <> | Subject | Re: us.kernel.org mirroring inconsistency |
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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. ]
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