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LinuxWorld: UserLinux–The Leaning Linux Tower of Babel?

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“In a move that some Linux users are likening to the
attempt–doomed to failure, it turned out–to build a Tower of
Babel, open source activist Bruce Perens pledged himself this week
to the creation of a new Linux distro: UserLinux.

“UserLinux would be based, said Perens, on Debian GNU/Linux,
thus drawing on a pre-existing Linux project with over 1,000
developers behind it. And it would occupy the vaccuum that is going
to exist in the consumer marker now that Red Hat is going to stop
selling its consumer version of Linux in retail stores…”

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