"A month of sundays ago [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:"
> 
>   Yes there are.  RedHat 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 are all official
> distributions.  There are also distributions of Slackware, Debian, and SuSE.

Official according to themselves!  There are also plenty you haven't
mentioned.  Monkeylinux springs to mind.

>   You said `There aren't "official" distributions.' when you should have said
> `There are distributions which aren't official'.

Until I see a regulatory body, they ain't official. Maybe ISO would like to
step in? 

The point being that linux is anarchic by nature.

I don't mind doing an autoconf script - I do quite a few, and I know the
battle they can be!  The trick is to rely on no properties of shell or
make whatsoever, irix be thanked.

> -- 
> Bob Forsman                                   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Peter (ptb)

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