On Friday, 14 October 2005 13:45, Andreas Simon wrote: > This is unfair. If you say Mandriva is based on Red Hat than you should say > SUSE is based on Slackware (you know it started as a German version of > Slackware) or later on Jurix (starting with S.u.S.E. Linux 4.2). Today both > Mandriva and SUSE are great distros on their own, no longer based on some > other distro with some added value. > > Cheers, > Andreas
Thanks for correcting me: it's perfectly true that Mandrake separated from the Red Hat base a long time ago. As for the Slackware roots of SuSE I never knew that, when I discovered it (after attempting an odl Slackware) I didn't notice it. Note that I would say I was "wrong" rather than "unfair" - I don't see anything discreditable to develop a distribution based on another (as long as it is permitted). There are many Debian-based distributions that fullfill different needs than the original (but that would not exist but for the original Debian) and I hope that the existence of OSS will be the seed for "SuSE-based" distribution. Just one example: I was today installing a "disaster-system" on a 1GB partition on my laptop: SuSE 10 would not do (even after deselecting lots of things they would come back to "satisfy dependancies" so I had to digg up an old 8.0 which still has a "minimum installation" available. So if anyone created a "SuSE-based distro thet will fit on half a gigabyte" I would welcome it. Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
