Tim Howe, I do hear a lot of about how good the Debian distro, is. Apart from it having an easy intsall routine, no-one has ever mentioned anything else. Is there anything else apart from that, when compared to RedHat 7.1? Tim Howe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [17/07/01 at 19:04]: > Actually there are special cases, at least one anyway. OpenBSD is free for > all and under the BSD license, but the CD layout is copywrite Theo DeRaat. > You can make your own CD with all the same stuff on it, but you can't copy > one of the official CDs. The reason for this is that the CDs fund > development. This has come under fire from the Slashdot crowd, but I think > they are wrong and Theo is right. The funding he has used to do development > has done wonders for the security of every free OS, including commercial > versions of Linux (OpenSSH anyone?). > So, OpenBSD CDs would have to be done custom. Also, doesn't Red Hat and > some others ship with commercial software for Linux? I don't think that's > legal to copy. If we do Debian CDs, we should probably include some install > instructions, the last version I looked at was confusing, and I install > OpenBSD all the time. I still think of Slack and Debian as the two "pure" > distros. ...but I digress... > > --Tim > > ================================================================ | Ade Talabi | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | ::SELLFOTO:: | Web Page: http://www.net-africa.com | ================================================================
