Turbolinux
Turbolinux is the name of a Japanese software company and the products manufactured by him Linux distribution.
History
In 1992, Jeff " Cliff" Miller and his wife Iris, the company Pacific HiTech in California. The company's focus was aimed mainly to the Asian market, first in Japan, then China and South Korea. The company renamed itself in 1999 TurboLinux.
At the height of the dotcom bubble, the company had many investors and therefore has a very eventful history. In 2000 alone, received a total of 87 million dollars in venture capital into the company; they expanded inter alia to Europe and opened numerous offices worldwide. An IPO appeared to be on very briefly.
Within a year but most offices were closed again. Frequent changes of management went hand in hand with an ever changing corporate strategies, the more harm rather than help. The founders Jeff and Iris Miller had already left the company in 2000. Turbolinux drew also back from Germany and Europe. In summer 2001, a merger with the also already hard-hit service LinuxCare seemed imminent. This failed at the last moment, however. 2002 Turbo Linux was acquired by SRA. SRA ( Software Research Associates) is an existing system house since 1967 with strong links to free software. One of the most employees at Turbolinux is the PostgreSQL core developers Tatsuo Ishii. Turbolinux is still one of the most popular Linux distributions in general, particularly in Southeast Asia (China, Japan).
Products
Turbolinux is respectively offered as a desktop and a server edition. These versions have the same version number and are identified by a suffix D or S.
Turbolinux is only available for i386 -compatible computers. By default in the Desktop Edition KDE desktop environment. GNOME is also included. The Server Edition uses Xfce as the desktop environment. Turbo Linux uses RPM as a package manager and as OpenOffice.org office suite. In addition, Turbo Linux includes, inter alia, following proprietary software:
- Automatic hardware detection and installation
- Turbo Media Player
- PowerDVD from Cyberlink.
- Flash Player
- Real Player
Turbolinux 11 Fuji is available for $ 39.00 in English and Japanese. The Server Edition costs $ 299.00.