Lame Linux

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 2/1/07, Jason D. Clinton <me at jasonclinton.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 12:45 -0600, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> > I was browsing MicroCenter yesterday, and looked at their Linux selection.
> > Seems to me like they used to carry the majors, Red Hat, SuSE - I know I
> > remember seeing SuSE there (pre-Novell).  The only recognized brand I saw
> > yesterday was Linspire, a few generic repackaged CD's, and a couple fairly
> > obscure brands I don't remember.  None of the majors were represented.
> >
> > I wonder why this is.  Is it just too easy to get them off the internet?  Has
> > the market for purchased editions collapsed?  Did they get stuck with too
> > many copies of older versions as distros evolved too rapidly over the last
> > few years?
> >
> > I checked the book section.  Plenty of Red Hat books, only one on Ubuntu.
>
> RedHat spun off their end user distro; Fedora, being a test-ground for
> RHEL, has no connection to software distribution channels.

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