What's after OpenLinux?

[Chong Yu Meng]

Jerry McBride wrote:

>Well, it looks like I'll be spending some effort to swap out some OpenLinux
>boxes pretty soon. Principles you know...
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>Can someone tell me, which of the various distributions are closest to OpenLinux
>in as far as directory locations and system V startup scripts? 
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I found TurboLinux to be the closest. None of the Red Hat crap like 
chkconfig, and the placement of files is very similar. It seems to be 
faster than OpenLinux too (very subjective), but upgrades are very 
spotty and inconsistent. If you want newer versions of anything - 
libraries, apps, etc. - you'll want to compile from source, and there 
may be considerable tweaking required. Don't try to upgrade KDE on it, 
it'll break a hundred things.

The only other problem is that it is under the UnitedLinux consortium, 
though it seems to be sticking to its own distro. I'm not sure what 
their position on pricing and licensing is. They're big in Asia, which 
is a very price-sensitive market. I don't use it now because I'm not too 
sure where they're headed.

Regards,
pascal chong