[sllug-members]: Oracle's Unbreakable Linux

[Elijah Newren]

On 10/28/06, Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe at math.utah.edu> wrote:
> Some of you may have heard the announcement earlier this week by
> Oracle that they now provide their own supported distribution of
> GNU/Linux called ``Unbreakable Linux''.
>
> According to yesterday's Salt Lake Tribune, Red Hat's stock fell 25%
> after the Oracle announcement.

Red Hat's response is kind of humorous: "Unfakeable Linux".  See it at
www.redhat.com (you can't miss it, it a big banner at the top of their
page).

There are lots of insightful blog posts about this on the Utah Open
Source Plant (http://openclue.org/ut/), in particular I liked those
from Matt Asay (http://asay.blogspot.com/) who has posted several
times on the issue.

Just my $0.02...