On Sat, Feb 16, Keith Winston wrote:
I wanted to make a comment about "if nmap is worth anything, it is on the SuSE distribution". While SuSE includes a gigantic number of useful applications, maybe the best mix of any distribution, the open source development community moves too fast and produces too much for anyone to include everything. There are several very useful applications, some only available in source code form that SuSE does not include:
Yes, and the biggest problem is: With our internal packages we could even fill 2 DVDs. Maybe if everybody has a DVD player, we can increase the number of DVDs.
gnut -- console based gnutella client (source) logcheck/logsentry -- log monitor and report program (source) mplayer -- Divx, DVD and other format movie player (source) lame -- MP3 encoder (source)
The point I want to make is that just because it's not on the SuSE CDs, don't assume the program is not worth anything.
We don't put Source only packages on our CDs and I'm not sure if we are really allowed to put the sources of all of the four packages on our CDs (at least we are not allowed to but binaries of them on our CDs). Putting source only packages on CDs has the problem that you need to write very good documentation how the people are able to compile them, far to expensive. The people who are able to compile this sources are also able to download the latest working source from the net. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE Linux AG Deutschherrenstr. 15-19 D-90429 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B