Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[Christoph Thiel <cthiel@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, jdd wrote:

> > > so there will be three downloadable versions, with the 10.1 alpha 
> > > added to the boxed version. quite a lot.
> > 
> > No there will be two versions. 10.0 and 10.0 OSS.
> 
> two "stable" if you want.

I'd call them "flavours", as they are binary-compatible/identical - it's 
just the selection of packages that differs.


> > > I think it would be far more simple to have only a "non OSS" ftp 
> > > repository
> > 
> > It would indeed be easier to have just one repository for everything 
> > (including stuff that is on e.g. the guru and packman repo's)
> 
> I understand SUSE want's to have a separate "non completely oss" system 
> (not to mention the legally unavailable stuff), but it should be more 
> simple to have the SUSE Linus OSS + in an other repository what makes 
> the SUSE Linux (non OSS, these naming are awfull :-()

That would be inst-source (OSS) + inst-source-java (non-OSS) + the extra 
stuff on ftp.suse.com (binary-only stuff, even contains mp3 support).


Regards
	Christoph