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To: drmorgan who wrote (1360)	7/17/1998 10:27:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1600

A few flavors I'm remotely aware of ... Red Hat Linux ................. redhat.com OpenLinux ...................... caldera.com Debian GNU/Linux .......... debian.org FreeBSD and Slackware ... cdrom.com S.u.S.E. Linux ................. suse.com TurboLinux ..................... turbolinux.com MkLinux ......................... mklinux.apple.com LinuxPPC ....................... linuxppc.org ... not to mention Red Hat Extreme Linux for parallel processing. My understanding is that they all have the Linux kernel. Needs vary and each flavor of Linux has it proponents. I see the variety as a strength. Good ol' competition at its best. Innovation is what Bill Gates wants after all. And he's not afraid of a level playing field is he? Here are some desktops: xfree86.org metrolink.com kde.org And some hardware: corelcomputer.com penguincomputing.com varesearch.com And some software: corel.com applix.com And some Linux sites: li.org linux.com linuxnow.com linuxjournal linuxresources.com linuxmall.com infomagic.com I think there's room in the world for a better desktop PC. I don't care if it emerges from Linux, JAVA, Jini or a jar of pickled herring. Business is beginning to wake up. My friends at Boeing tell me that they are not going to buy Windows98. In addition they are extremely unhappy with Word 8.0 and Access. Corel seems to be embracing Linux. WordPerfect is available and I believe they plan an office suite by the end of the year. I haven't played with my Applix Office Suite a whole lot yet ... but what can I say? It's a spreadsheet, word processor, etc. But I'm mindlessly rambling again. Reply #8 on the Linux thread from g_m10 references an article containing a RUMOR of Debian and Red Hat merging. Keep in mind that people on the Linux thread know infinitely more than I do. Are you sorry you asked yet? Best of luck.