Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 30th Oct 2001 05:13 UTC
Back when I used to live in Greece, there was a popular saying: "Greece is not just Athens". Similarly, Linux is much more than (the highly marketed) Red Hat or Mandrake. Assuming you got the skills required, a Linux distribution can be created, distributed or sold by virtually anyone. This is what Free Software is all about anyway. Two Sweedish Linux coders are offering their own Linux distros for some months now (with newer versions on the way). Per Lidén has put together CRUX from scratch, while John Eriksson has evolved a lightweight Slackware version to his own ROOTLinux. OSNews interviews both the developers regarding their (part-time, hobby) projects and their future prospects.
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Whenever I hear about new Linux distribution the completely wrong analogy comes to my mind but I can't help it. It's about christian religion and how it splitted in different branches and then splitted again and again. May be it's because I was really impressed by St.Augustin story - he was incredibly popular and influential and easily could spawn a new religion movement but chose not to. Instead he decided to make existing one stronger. As I said it's probably wrong analogy - these guys are great and I wish them all good luck. After trying 6 or 7 of different distros from Linux zoo I started to value FreeBSD approach more and more.