On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 01:49, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > [snip]but I'd like to > know through this list with all the people that,"Is it so that > GNU/Linux is mostly termed as Red Hat here, particularly in > India".
nope. gnulinux comes in several flavours in india, as across the world. we all know and agree. these days, the most popular distribution in india is knoppix, and its further derivatives. people have also started to install knoppix straight to hard disk. > it has been rare to see the magazines (like PCQuest and LFY) > distributing anything else than Red Hat (Now cloned to Fedora). not true fro LFY, who started with knoppix, and have done pretty much every major distribution out there, lke suse, slackware, etc etc. even didit earlier distributed mandrake. PCQ gives out other distros too. just that their PCQLinux captures the imagination of more people. > What is more worse is that the goodies provided on the cd's are > mostly RPM's specifically packaged for Red Hat. --- Why So ? hmmm... i don't think you can just distribute RPMs without giving the sourcecode, or giving links to where sourcecodes could be found. so relax. have often seen tar.gz as well. > d) Some might say that distributions like LIFY, Knoppix, Morphix > have already been distributed. "But those were all LIVE CD's". > Can't someone modify/localize Slackware/Debian to be called as > the next PCQ Linux 2005. PCQ had a huge internal debate and switched to fedora by a hair's breadth. they have hinted the next could be based on debian. > What view does "Linux Lingam" have on it ? I know he was stuck to some > dependency problems (Indirect apt problems). Might be cursing the distro > that made it ;-) > if you are an active member of any LUG in india, you'll discover the monthly magazines and their distros have little impact. people with high-bandwidth download fresher iso files of a huge array of distros and share them all the time. i have noted trends like huge waves ripple across the linux community because of this. once it was knoppix, then it was F.I.R.E, then there was woody, another time we were all gunning for mandrake. so relax. and no, i did not curse any distro. battling the dep problem was a fantastic experience. i enjoyd it since i learnt so much. plus, apart from my local lug, i contacted several others on specific other mailing lists worldwide who helped out. hey! gnulinux is not about distro or technology. it never was. it is *only* about community. and the culture it wishes to foster in this community. technology is optional. wake up. ;-) LL _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
