On Thursday 06 April 2006 15:06, Rony Bill wrote: > I think they have craftily tried to skirt the gpl issue. From the > installation and their claims it appears that they may have not > modified individual packages so their claim that they are intact as > the source. Their major goof up IMHO is in ripping apart the FC4 > package, taking only the kernel and fusing non-compatible rpm > packages into a Bhel Puri Linux distribution that turned out to be a > buggy disaster. > > For example, FC4 does not ship with Firefox 1.5. It comes with the > older version. When I had tried to install 1.5 manually, it had given > some compilation errors. Even the FC4 rpm repos did not contain > Firefox 1.5 then. However it was crammed into the Bhel Puri Linux > 2006 distro and I had mouse trouble while trying to configure it.
*snip* Do they even know that the Fedora kernel is really a vanilla kernel with over 200 patches applied to it? -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
