Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1473 mails)

[SBains@xxxxxxxxxx (Surjit Bains)]

I think the important thing to remmember is that RedHAt is a Linux
Distribution take away the nice gui's like linuxconf, control-panel etc
you should be able to use the command prompt the same on all
distributions....

What are the main differences between any Linux Distrib.... File
Hierachy, Configuration files, Admin Tools, Kernel Compilation.. (i.e
Redhat heavily into modules) and of course the  c Library Version ....

I have not comes across many applications which are RedHat only....that
will not work on other distribs

... I think Redhat are cautious not to upset the Linux community and
become the Microsoft of Linux..... i.e. offering RedHat shares to
developers in the Open Source community... their website is keen to get
that across...

Surjit.

-----Original Message-----
From: joe lerch [mailto:jljr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 13 August 1999 11:52
To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
Subject: [SLE] What if RedHat becomes dominate Linux distribution?

I know it is a too early to predict anything, but I am curious what
will happen if RedHat does become the dominate linux distribution.
Will it be bad for SuSE users? I have read that many companies
that will be releasing software may only guarantee that it works
with RedHat, could this could become  a  problem for other
distributions?

The good thing is RedHat will have the money for research 
and development, as long as they share the results with other 
distributions freely, rather than use that to corner the market.

What are your thoughts?  

joe

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