Red Hat To Drop Boxed Retail Distribution

An anonymous reader writes "Red Hat, the leading American distributor of Linux, is abandoning the retail channel, the company is expected to announce Monday, says this story in Linux and Main. Non-Red Hat developers will be given a greater role in deciding what's in upcoming Red Hat distributions, too."

And The Winner Is...

[Nick Driver]

Who's the leading distributor period?

I believe that would be www.linuxiso.org [linuxiso.org]

Re:oh yeah?

[mikewren420]

I thought BitTorrent [bitconjurer.org] was the leading distributor, period.

>-~

Re:Can't possibly be right

[Sponge Bath]

You will however have to wait until Monday

I happen to have the scoop now, for those who can't wait:
Red Hat has been taken over by aliens from Perseus Omicron 8. Future releases will be forcefully installed by tentacled monsters on all machines in existence to enslave the pathetic humans...

and they will drop RPM in favor of apt-get.

Remember, you heard it first on /. and that is a pretty good source.

Re:Can't possibly be right

[stefanlasiewski]

I for one welcome our new tentacled overlords.

Re:Can't possibly be right

[Alan Cox]

The aliens is belivable, the tentacled monsters are believable, but apt-get.. ;)