[Fsf-friends] Novel, Suse, Ximian...

Ramanraj K ramanraj@md4.vsnl.net.in
Thu Dec 4 17:11:45 IST 2003


  What is needed is a Free Software Distribution/Installation program 
under the GPL that allows users/distributors to customize Free Software 
Distribution without referring to a particular FOO distribution package.

SuSE has YaST - Yet another Setup Tool that is released under the SuSE 
License.  RedHat has Anaconda that is covered under the RedHat Licence. 
 We do not know what Licence will cover Fedora or the future Novell 
distribution.  All the other Free Software included in the 
distributions, that are ultimately used, are covered by the GPL, FreeBSD 
license or other like free licence.

Recently, Knoppix has made an attractive entry by making installation as 
simple as loading a cd.   Knoppix is released under the GPL, and based 
on the Debian distribution. A straightforward installation program like 
Knoppix, under the GPL, giving the user the choice of using any of the 
kernels, HURD, Linux or FreeBSD, should help the community to release 
more custom distributions, and we should be able to talk more plainly, 
generally and directly about applications, without any bother about the 
distribution tool/package used.




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