[geeks] A Real OS? (was: Re: my capitalization.. etc.)
Gregory Leblanc
gleblanc at linuxweasel.com
Mon May 20 20:29:37 CDT 2002
On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 22:44, Eric Dittman wrote:
> > Contrast this to the Linux distributions, where you basically have
> > Slackware which tries to be BSD, Debian which tries to be Stallman's fan
> > club, RedHat (I still haven't figured out their angle), and an uncountable
> > number of "it's like RedHat but with a different $feature $characteristic"
> > distributions.
>
> There's two big players in the Linux market, RedHat and SuSE.
> The big companies focus on those two (mostly RedHat).
Where does this statement come from? The only folks I know who use SuSE
much are Europeans. It's certainly big over there. The two that I
think of first are Red Hat Linux, and Debian GNU/Linux. There are
others that I'm familiar with, but those are the first two I think of.
Greg
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