[geeks] A Real OS? (was: Re: my capitalization.. etc.)

[Eric Dittman]

> > > 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.

I base that statement on what I see the big companies offering.

As for there being two big players, I got that from a few
market share reports.  SuSE is very big in Europe, and RedHat
is very big elsewhere.  For the last reports I saw Debian
still had a small market share.
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Eric Dittman
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