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

[Manilal K M]

Hello,
  I think we should think in this direction. But the main problem who will provide the funds ?
Manilal
----- Original Message -----
From: Ramanraj K <ramanraj@md4.vsnl.net.in>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 17:11:45 +0530
To: fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in
Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] Novel, Suse, Ximian...

>   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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