[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“Back in Linux’s early days, Linuxcare emerged as the
first important Linux support company. In 1998, the company made
headlines not just in the technology press but in mainstream
business publications like the Wall Street Journal as the company
that would help businesses switch over to Linux. It was not to
last. Poor top management decisions led Linuxcare to lose first its
way, and, then, years later, to quietly vanish. Now, one of its
founders, Arthur F. Tyde III, has brought Linuxcare back from the
grave and made it ready for the 21st century.“As Tyde told me, “A few years ago I bought the assets of
Linuxcare; it seemed like a shame to let the Linuxcare vision rot
away in some file cabinet in the dungeons beneath Silicon Valley
Bank. At the time it was more the sentimental move of an ex-founder
then anything else. Some good friends of mine however (a few even
with the original LC crew) wanted to take a run at restarting it as
a service, not support play.” So it is that Linuxcare has been
reborn.”