From: Egan Orion 

Adam Flinton wrote:
> BTW
>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,981353,00.asp
>
> Score 1 for cloning:
>
> " "Yes, this is a change in strategy. Our Sun Linux distribution is
> essentially Red Hat Linux with a few minor tweaks," John Loiacono, vice
> president of Sun's operating platforms group, told reporters at a "town
> hall" meeting in San Francisco Friday morning. "But our
customers told us
> they didn't want a standard distribution that had some tweaks, so I decided
> to fix the problem by simply supporting between two and four standard Linux
> distributions, though I have not as yet decided which these will be. "
>
> Choice is good. Even within / between linux'es 
> Red Hat, Suse, Mandrake & a debian breed?
>
> With the emphasis on say Mandrake or the debian breed? i.e. if 2......& the
> 2 are RH & Suse then they'll eat sun's lunch
>
> If it's Red Hat & Suse only.......So mandrake...why not? Linux is
linux & if
> run as a server (inc no gui) then the differences are much smaller.


Hmmm, considerations:

IBM and HP are tight with Red Hat, and IBM also supports SuSE.

Debian has a slow update cycle -- good, bad, or neutral?

Debian is also very Euro, independent, and idealogical.

Mandrake is (was?) Red Hat based, but is more innovative.

Mandrake needs more capital to get on solid ground.

Decisions, decisions...

Sun could do worse than invest in Mandrake (and Opterons can hammer HP).

Hmmm...
Egan

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