What's after OpenLinux?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 07:54:24 -0700
Collins Richey <erichey2 at attbi.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 22:57:43 -0800
> Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 05:49:52PM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > 
> > >Well, it looks like I'll be spending some effort to swap out some
> > >OpenLinux boxes pretty soon. Principles you know...
> > 
> > >Can someone tell me, which of the various distributions are closest
> > >to OpenLinux in as far as directory locations and system V startup
> > >scripts?
> > 
> > We've moved to SuSE 8.1, and I've been quite happy with it overall.
> > They've moved away from the mongo rc.config file (and we're building
> > all of our stuff using openpkg so don't run afoul of any of their
> > packages).
> > 
> > SuSE has a very nice method of dealing with the SYSV startup where
> > dependencies can be specified in the master startup in /etc/init.d,
> > then the ``inssrv'' program will figure out what has to start in order
> > to make sure things are done in the proper order.
> > 
> 
> They've finally caught up with gentoo <grin>

Same here, at home. I am now itching to contribute ebuild scripts
for various packages. I am, happily, a convert.

The problem is that it simply is not a system you can realistically
install on production systems scattered around the globe - especially if
they are in vans roving the highways and byways. A stable CD-based install
is needed. I suspect we will be SuSE or RedHat in due time.

But be warned. Our company seems to be the kiss of death. Every OS we
embrace seems to go awry sometime after we adopt it. Sticking to the Unix
line, we did AT&T SVR4, which went away. We followed it to 4.2 (Univel).
Which went away (as in, the company emphasis left the desktop). Next to
Novell, who gave up to SCO. After a few years of SCO we began to tire of
the direction UnixWare was taking. Slowly wising up, we left commercial
Unix for Linux. Caldera. Soon became SCO.

And here we sit. OpenLinux gone. UnitedLinux an uncomfortable proposition.
Caldera up to questionable tactics (Project Monterey aside).

People in my company ask me: Roger, why didn't you let us go with MS? All
the OS hopping is just too confusing. Of course, I kind of like it as I
never get a chance to get bored. But, in some aspects, it keeps our
product from stabilizing as much as some may like.

I am afraid to break the news to all in my company that OpenLinux is over.


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