The future of Ubuntu Linux.... Will it make Micky$oft go bankrupt?

[Karl F. Larsen]

Anthony Baldwin wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Lisi Reisz wrote:
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>>> On Tuesday 12 May 2009 13:35:50 Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>>>> They would be interested in a Linux sold to the
>>>> public with certain rights to support in the first 2 months.
>>>>
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>>> Given that Red Hat had just such a product and deliberately hived it off into
>>> Fedora, while contining to support enterprises, have they indicated that they
>>> are thinking of switching back?
>>>
>>> Lisi
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>>    Fedora is not what I am thinking of. Enterprise Linux comes close
>> but it is pointed at business. Red Hat *might* be talked into opening a
>> market for quality home Linux with real people that help you get it
>> installed and working. As I said it will cost money but I hope not as
>> much as Windows 7 costs today.
>>
>> Karl
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> That's kind of the point.
> RedHat used to have such a thing, sort of, but then shuffled it off as
> a separate "community -based" project, which we all know as Fedora.
> I used it for about 8 years.  Not bad, but yum tends to break stuff.
>
> /tony
>   
    I used Fedora-core and yum was an improvement over the old .rpm that 
always needed a dozen libs to work :-)
    I never did know about apt-get until Ubuntu and it is simply the 
best, period.


Karl