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Re: [News] British Entrepreneur Plans to Make GNU/Linux Popular in the UK

__/ [ John Bailo ] on Wednesday 18 April 2007 02:02 \__

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> A Linux for the rest of us?
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Serial entrepreneur Peter Dawe, who helped bring the internet to the
>> | UK, is launching a "safe" Linux distro tailored for the technophobe.
>> `----
>> 
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/17/babellinux/
>> 
>> When Mark Shuttleworth set its eyes on a similar goal he was quite
>> successful.
> 
> That is good...but it's a day late and a dollar short.
> 
> SUSE has the pole position.  Xgl is lighting fast.
> 
> If you go Suse, you win.

He could fork Opensuse if he wanted. I don't think any distributors does
this, but many adopt Debian, RHEL, and Ubuntu.

-- 
                ~~ With kind regards

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