From simon.adams@wcom.co.uk Wed Aug 19 15:51:30 1998 From: simon.adams@wcom.co.uk To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: RE: [SuSE Linux] Watch out for this?? Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 15:51:30 +0000 Message-ID: <43FEC5BE1E1BD211BD8308002BB6B46C64D46B@gblon1ex1.wcom.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <[SuSE Linux] Watch out for this??> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2095205867472789496==" --===============2095205867472789496== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm pretty new to linux and am still confused to a certain extent on the issues behind GPL etc. But my understanding of Linux is that Linux is the kernel only and the rest distributions who are free to put anything on top. There fore how can you have a standard distribution. Or are we only talking about core sets of utilities. Simon > On 19-Aug-98 Ted Harding wrote: > > Sure. There is every argument for it. "Purists" claim that Debian is the > I agree we have a need for a standard, what I don't like is the idea that > only > people who pay for the privalage get to decide what that standard is... > > > I believe the Linux Standard Base System Project is the protegee of one > > distribution, not a Linux-wide project. In fact, the only 100 per cent > It was actually the brain child of Bruce Perens, Erik Wathenstein and > joined by > many other "big names" in the Linux worlds (such as Allan Cox, SuSE and > Caldera). The only notable absentees were Red Hat and Debian. > > - > To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with > this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e > - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e --===============2095205867472789496==-- From gecko@benham.net Wed Aug 19 19:53:33 1998 From: gecko@benham.net To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: RE: [SuSE Linux] Watch out for this?? Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 12:53:33 -0700 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <43FEC5BE1E1BD211BD8308002BB6B46C64D46B@gblon1ex1.wcom.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============3545651441262607682==" --===============3545651441262607682== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable All a "Standard Distribution" would be is an agreement amoungst gentleman to follow a set of guide lines when making a distribution. There is nothing compulsive. Anybody would be free to make a distribution that doesn't follow the "standard". But if the majority of distributions agree to follow a set of guidelines, the big software giants (and the little guys) can know what to expect from these distributions and write code accordingly without haveing to write a seperate package for each distribution. The "standard distribution" would be more of an "accepted practice by the big names in Linux" On 19-Aug-98 Adams, Simon wrote: >=20 > I'm pretty new to linux and am still confused to a certain extent on the > issues behind GPL etc. But my understanding of Linux is that Linux is the > kernel only and the rest distributions who are free to put anything on top.= =20 >=20 > There fore how can you have a standard distribution. Or are we only talking > about core sets of utilities. ---------------------------------- http://benham.net/index.html> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d+(-) s:+ a29 C++$ UL++>++++ P+++$ L++>++++ E? W+++$ N+(-) o? K- w+++$(--) O M-- V- PS-- PE++ Y++ PGP++ t+ 5 X R+ !tv b++++ DI+++ D++ G++>G+++ e h+ r* y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ ---------------------------------- - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e --===============3545651441262607682==--