● 11.16.07

●● Quick Mention: Who Needs Linspire When You Have a ‘Community Distro’?

Posted in GNU/Linux, Linspire, Novell at 3:45 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

After yesterday’s "goodbye SUSE" post a natural fit would be a story where a truly company-independent distro beats Linspire. The winner here is PCLinuxOS, a Mandrake derivative.

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Pretty good install, all the things I need working and as a bonus this is the only distro I have tried that will allow Audacity to run concurrently with other apps as well as allowing it to record and play in the same session!

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Remember that Novell’s deal with Microsoft is most harmful to distros which stand behind no monetised model. Thus, Novell-type deal undermine the very fundamental values of Linux, which is decentralised ny nature. Shane, my co-editor, is a a maintainer of an educational GNU/Linux distribution, so you can probably understand his frustration.

Novell and Microsoft continue to turn their back to standards and turn them into a business.

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The two initiatives include – Microsoft’s first Interoperability Lab in India, designed to help customers envision and build solutions which are interoperable; Open Source Technology Program designed to further open source research and development of open source applications on the Windows platform in collaboration with leading engineering institutes in the country.

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With standards, none of this is needed. Novell does not seem to care. The same goes to other sellouts, who seek to distinguish themselves by liaising with a sworn foe of all standards.

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