Re: [ossig] Malaysia own Distro Company

[Christopher DeMarco <cdemarco@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:37:36PM +0800, Ahmad Arafat Abdullah wrote:

> Dinesh, izzit a new BSD fork? or just a joke ? :)

It's very real,  Dinesh and I were   talking about it just  yesterday.
I've not  tried it out  myself  but supposedly it's  a nice  BSD/Linux
hybrid (you've heard of GNU/Linux, right?)  All of the much-lauded BSD
engineering (argument   standardization,      mandatory documentation)
happens pretty  much in userspace, so PH  is integrating the Linux 2.7
devel  series kernels into a "best  of both worlds" OS.  What's really
interesting  is that,  unlike  GNU/Linux  which  can't technically  be
called just   "Linux"   because  it  uses copywritten   GNU  software,
PurpleHat *can*,  thanks to the  liberal  BSD license,  be called just
"Linux".  It's   a great step   forward  in the  drive  for enterprise
acceptance of OSS, because the  political talk  doesn't have to  cloud
the good business sense.

I'd  refer  you  to the  PH  website,  but  it's currently  down   for
maintenance; google for it and you should find some stuff.


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