On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 03:48:48PM +0100, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
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.
What about me? I posted the same thing but sooner. If you bought 8.1 the calander it came with had this info in there.
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
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