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- From: ctechols at mindspring.com (Cory T. Echols)
- Date: Tue Nov 4 13:07:56 2003
- In-reply-to: <1067954556.30596.44.camel@devel>
- References: <[email protected]> <1067954556.30596.44.camel@devel>
On 11/04, Chris Fowler wrote:
> In the beginning there was Slackware and a few others. I guess in
> the end they'll be Slackware and a few others.
While RedHat, SUSE and company are slowly turning away from the home
hacker market and focusing more on the 'enterprise', there is beginning
to be a quiet explosion in the non-commercial distribution scene. In
addition to the venerable Slackware and Debian, there is crux, arch,
vector, gentoo, lunar, sourcemage, knoppix, gnoppix, morphix and more.
It may be a little sad that RedHat no longer markets itself to your home
desktop. In the end, though, distributions shooting for more narrow
segments of the market, rather than trying to please everyone, is a very
good thing.
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Cory T. Echols
ctechols at mindspring.com