and then there were three?

[Bob Raymond]

Net Llama! wrote:
> dep wrote:
> 
>> begin  Michael Scottaline's  quote:
>> | NOT good news.  I've never used Turbo, but their failure [if true],
>> | while not totally unexpected, contributes to a sense that the
>> | "business model" for OSS might ultimately be doomed.
>> |     I know some will argue that by it's very nature, OSS will survive
>> | (Debian, Slack, and others).  But developers have to eat and as
>> | "employers" fail, the plight of some becomes more perplexing.
>> |     let's hope the bleeding stops here.
>>
>> it won't. the big, master shakeout has been expected for some time. 
>> turbo was the distro with the most to gain from unitedlinux -- my 
>> guess is that they'll stay alive in some form, if just as the 
>> far-eastern sales office of unitedlinux. if unitedlinux survives, 
>> which right now i'd say is a mighty big if. (actually, not just right 
>> now -- it's been doomed from the start, imho, because of its "screw 
>> you" attitude toward the existing base of desktop users and 
>> developers, something that is, unfortunately, epidemic in linuxland.)
>>
>> the real question is, when the smoke clears it will be red hat, its 
>> sidekick mandrake, and who else among commercial distros?
> 
> 
> lycoris maybe.  and that Collins' distro  :)

Gentoo is non-commercial, and shows no indication of changing.  There's 
Xandros (remade Corel Linux), Lindows is sort of a half-distro, so maybe 
it can be counted on the list?