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Donnie Barnes wrote:
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First and foremost, you won't find me contributing to any holy wars, *especially* on another distribution's mailing list (I've been playing nice on the Caldera lists for quite some time :-).
your own installer process. It's when you begin to consider what it takes to get a system operational with a high level of automation that you appreciate the efforts of folks at SuSE, Debian, RedHat, Slackware, WGS, Caldera (and God forbid I forgot any one else) .
I just wanted to make one comment on the above..."WGS" has never produced their own distribution. They have always been based on either Slackware or Red Hat. They may have made a few updates and some slight enhancements, but they have never produced their own distribution that I know of. Caldera used to be based on Red Hat but now own LST so they could be considered to be their own distro now.
--Donnie
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In all actuality, several distributions are based on each other. I won't pretend to be an expert, but as I understand it: Caldera is based on Redhat WGS is based on Redhat SuSE is based on slackware this is NOT a bad thing. you too can use the free parts of your favorite dist and modify and resell it. THAT IS THE BEAUTY OF IT!!!! NOONE can ever take away the free parts. NOONE must reinvent the wheel to create a new application. Just use something close, and save month's of redundant coding. Seems like there had better be several distributions to maintain competition. We all know what happens when competition goes away?!? just my 2cents mc -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e