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nyinge
October 25th, 2006, 09:58 PM
Larry Ellison announced, what I believe, is a fork of RedHat. The following is the link to Oracle's linux:

http://www.oracle.com/technologies/linux/index.html

Edit: As Rick pointed out, it actually is a support program that Oracle will be offering which competes directly with RedHat's.
-Rick-
October 25th, 2006, 10:02 PM
Actually it looks like a Linux support program for RHEL.
drucer
October 25th, 2006, 11:38 PM
Actually it looks like a Linux support program for RHEL.

Actually it isn't. They will start competing with RedHat. It looks like they will use RedHat Linux as the base system and start distributing their own Linux systems with unique patch sets etc.

http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/061025/19242_id.html?.v=1

From the news article:

“Oracle starts with Red Hat Linux, removes Red Hat trademarks, and then adds Linux bug fixes,” the company said in a new release.

"The company said it will maintain compatibility with Red Hat Linux. The Linux code itself is being distributed free on Oracle.com."
ComplexNumber
October 25th, 2006, 11:41 PM
maybe its a good time now for canonical to consider moving ubuntu from deb to rpm format.
zenwhen
October 26th, 2006, 12:33 AM
maybe its a good time now for canonical to consider moving ubuntu from deb to rpm format.

Why?
Polygon
October 26th, 2006, 12:35 AM
maybe its a good time now for canonical to consider moving ubuntu from deb to rpm format.

why the heck would they do that?
nu2this
October 26th, 2006, 01:03 AM
maybe its a good time now for canonical to consider moving ubuntu from deb to rpm format.
For me personally if Ubuntu,or any other linux distro for that matter, wants to move to a package installer it should be Autopackage

http://autopackage.org/
nyinge
October 26th, 2006, 01:17 AM
maybe its a good time now for canonical to consider moving ubuntu from deb to rpm format.

That'd make me cry. One of the reasons that I had moved to Ubuntu was apt-get, unless we could implement YUM on deb packages. :-?
madmetal
October 26th, 2006, 01:45 AM
That'd make me cry. One of the reasons that I had moved to Ubuntu was apt-get, unless we could implement YUM on deb packages. :-?

apt-get imho is an advantage of ubuntu/debian...
ubuntu needs a popular and stable debian so as to have their own share as .deb against the .rpm of red hat and suse..
nyinge
October 26th, 2006, 03:49 AM
Here's (http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7753065928.html) a great blog entry by sjvn about Oracle's move on Red Hat. I agree with him.

I wonder why Red Hat cannot just grab those backports by Oracle and issue them back to its obsolete's versions?