[Sheflug] linuxcare?

[matt fairtlough <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

was just idly browsing about laptops as I'm planning on getting one and 
came across the linuxcare site.
I wondered how good their stuff is.  They supposedly do hardware 
certification for linux compatibility. Well, perhaps some of you are 
connected with them anyway.

I found the "linuxcare university" concept a bit puzzling.  I didn't 
think that anyone could announce that they were a University, something 
about charters or some such?  I'm probably hopelessly out of date here.

the "Linux Standard Base" seems to be an attempt to impose some kind of 
uniformity or order on the various linux distributions.  Is this 
something that is widely supported and likely to succeed?

the philosophy and approach of linuxcare seems at first glance to be 
quite different from what I've seen of the open source community, but 
maybe this is just a superficial impression.  I see IBM has a hand on 
this and we were pointed recently to information about the large 
investment IBM is making in linux/open source.  Presumably with big 
players putting big money in they won't be content just to let things 
evolve in their own sweet way but will have a strong interest in 
developments that increase their profitability.

Certainly the "complete linux system on a minidisk" idea sounds interesting.

slightly puzzled of Sheffield,

Matt.
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