Tuesday, July 12, 2005

The Ubuntu Foundation and Debian | Open Source | ZDNet.com

� The Ubuntu Foundation and Debian | Open Source | ZDNet.com: "In fact, as open source and Linux become more and more accepted in the mainstream, I think there will be a shift away from a vendor-controlled Linux distros like Red Hat and SUSE and towards a single standard. Debian seems ideally-suited to provide that standard, whether one wishes to use standard Debian, or another flavor of Linux based on Debian."

IMO: We already see this trend with Munich, Vienna and a county of Spain is migrating to Debian based distros because they dont want vendor lock-in.

Debian has almost 16 000 readied software packages easy to install for free, plus the important social contract just like Debian based Ubuntu. Mandriva, TurboLinux and Progency is now working on a Debian based entreprise Linux too. Anyway, Linux is Linux is Linux, the Linux kernel is what ensure the compatibility anyway.

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