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HP releases Linux Common Operating Environment 4.0
HP releases Linux Common Operating Environment 4.0
Posted May 30, 2007 17:30 UTC (Wed) by miah (guest, #639)Parent article: HP releases Linux Common Operating Environment 4.0
Sounds need, but I dont see 100's of different distros available..
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HP releases Linux Common Operating Environment 4.0
Posted May 30, 2007 20:01 UTC (Wed) by juhl (subscriber, #33245) [Link]
"but I dont see 100's of different distros available.."No? I just checked DistroWatch and they currently list at least 537 distros (at least that's how many results my search for "all" distributions returned) - http://distrowatch.com/search.php?category=All&origin=All&basedon=All&desktop=All&architecture=All&status=All.
HP releases Linux Common Operating Environment 4.0
Posted May 31, 2007 6:44 UTC (Thu) by pjdc (guest, #6906) [Link]
However, the site linked from the press release only offers six.
HP releases Linux Common Operating Environment 4.0
Posted May 31, 2007 13:44 UTC (Thu) by bryang (guest, #43510) [Link]
Probably a matter of semantics, but each Distro-Version-Arch is counted distinctly for the "100's". And these are contained within the available overlay modules (10 at current count).
HP releases Linux Common Operating Environment 4.0
Posted May 31, 2007 22:00 UTC (Thu) by pjdc (guest, #6906) [Link]
That helps explain why it's not the support nightmare it seemed at first.