SuSE CEO's Two-Distro World 401
FrankoBoy writes "CRN has an interview with SuSE CEO Richard Seibt in which he claims such things as 'Linux means two companies: Red Hat and SuSE, and nobody else.' Another example of this kind of corporatespeak can be found in another interview he did with ZDNet last week. DistroWatch has an article about all this in its current weekly newsletter."
Surely he meant to say (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, right (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Gentoo? (Score:3, Funny)
I think they deserved their very own poll option.
Placing my bets on non commercial distros. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:A bit inflammatory, no? (Score:5, Funny)
On Slashdot? You're kidding, right?
Re:yep, Suse is cool. (Score:2, Funny)
Oh yes it can!
Just wait until I'm in charge.
When you see the sort of stuff I'm gonna pull, it'll make Microsoft seem like a benevolent-software-monopoly-dictatorship.
Re:makes me think twice... (Score:1, Funny)
Well, based on the replies in this thread I'd say that the people who try it will, in general, switch over to Gentoo.
It is therefore highly recommended that you do not try SuSE - unless you like to have casual sex and get your kicks out of risking getting syphilis.
MIHGT I RECOMMENDD GENTOOO? (Score:4, Funny)
Good Day
Re:What other companies are there? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Surely he meant to say (Score:3, Funny)
What?!? There's only two - SCO and SCO, nobody else!!
Expect to be sued.
Yours, Darl McBride
:)
Suse dies with their UnitedLinux partner SCO (Score:2, Funny)
But Suse's future depended entirely on a success of UnitedLinux. Suse is in many respects like SCO: they don't really believe in open source, but only in closed source pay-ware. Thus, the suse administration program YaST is closed source. In the end, they will sink with their partner SCO.
Eventually, the distro world is gonna be:
- RedHat (corporate users who think they need phone support)
- Mandrake All people who want to use linux but don't want to edit config files by hand
- Gentoo All those who love editing config files in emacs and vi, and to spend their time compiling kernels and wanking on how fast their PC compiles it
- Debianfor all those who think it should be named gnu instead of linux and that Stallman is good and Linus is bad, and who choose their distro on ideology rather than on rational aspects