Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 17, 2003 05:49 AM
Reasons:
-- Major distributions charge for locked-in proprietary "Enterprise" Linux. While the product is excellent (RHES is very solid, stable, and has important-to-the-boardroom 3rd party vendor certifications, but is more expensive than Windows 2003 for similar configurations)
-- Debian, while excellent, is not a "finished", or, polished, distribution
-- A Free standard implementation of a finished Kernel and OS based on Linux, GNU tools, etc., provides a target for Enterprise vendors to certify against.
Linux is becoming "RedHat" to the industry. Redhat, while excellent, is moving closer to proprietary models. Caldera was once a Linux distributor that added a proprietary model to its Linux distribution...then a management change made it Enemy #1 (but, considering the slap-stick side show they've put on for the last 3 quarters, we couldn't ask for a better enemy; RedHat is smarter and learning from SCO's foolish shenanigins would provide a formidible opponent if that should happen; don't think it can't -- many free peoples awake one morning to find their government replaced by Bolshiveks, Maoists, Khmer Rouge, Nazis, etc. -- tyrannies happen).
What Mr. Perens is doing is establishing the next level of freedom for Linux: not at the kernel level or individual application level or even at the conglomeration/package management level. He's going after the finished product level of Operating System development -- specifically, the business solution level.
Anyway, he says it better. That's just my thinking on the subject. I'm a current RHES customer. I *love* RHES for large-scale system implementation. I *specify* RHES currently for clustered web/app/db environments. And I look forward to UserLinux, or Plinux (Peren's Linux), to be running and available so that Linux, polished, enterprise-class Linux remains Free.
I think Plinux will keep RH, and Novell, honest. Without this step, Linux could be an unmantain mangle of options with no polished version available without proprietary licensing. Not good.
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Re:Still asking "Why?"
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 17, 2003 05:49 AM-- Major distributions charge for locked-in proprietary "Enterprise" Linux. While the product is excellent (RHES is very solid, stable, and has important-to-the-boardroom 3rd party vendor certifications, but is more expensive than Windows 2003 for similar configurations)
-- Debian, while excellent, is not a "finished", or, polished, distribution
-- A Free standard implementation of a finished Kernel and OS based on Linux, GNU tools, etc., provides a target for Enterprise vendors to certify against.
Linux is becoming "RedHat" to the industry. Redhat, while excellent, is moving closer to proprietary models. Caldera was once a Linux distributor that added a proprietary model to its Linux distribution...then a management change made it Enemy #1 (but, considering the slap-stick side show they've put on for the last 3 quarters, we couldn't ask for a better enemy; RedHat is smarter and learning from SCO's foolish shenanigins would provide a formidible opponent if that should happen; don't think it can't -- many free peoples awake one morning to find their government replaced by Bolshiveks, Maoists, Khmer Rouge, Nazis, etc. -- tyrannies happen).
What Mr. Perens is doing is establishing the next level of freedom for Linux: not at the kernel level or individual application level or even at the conglomeration/package management level. He's going after the finished product level of Operating System development -- specifically, the business solution level.
Anyway, he says it better. That's just my thinking on the subject. I'm a current RHES customer. I *love* RHES for large-scale system implementation. I *specify* RHES currently for clustered web/app/db environments. And I look forward to UserLinux, or Plinux (Peren's Linux), to be running and available so that Linux, polished, enterprise-class Linux remains Free.
I think Plinux will keep RH, and Novell, honest. Without this step, Linux could be an unmantain mangle of options with no polished version available without proprietary licensing. Not good.
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