On Saturday 18 November 2006 01:25, Primm wrote:
> Is opensuse a fork? Or is the Novell too?
"fork" , a play on unix terms just means a legal copy....
When a unix process is forked, it is copied precisely, only the process
number changes. Sever parent/child sockets applications frequently use the
technique....
When a distro is "forked" it is merely copied (following the GPL)
precisely
and legally, but under different management (if you will). Novell bought
SuSE... but, the Suse distro can be pasteurized and redistributed (removing
Novell and M$ from the mix) and yet preserving the distro for the people who
really matter... the Suse Linux community.
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