Change for Caldera OpenLinux Workstation
Lars Weber
me at lars.in-berlin.de
Thu Jun 28 23:35:06 UTC 2001
>>>>> "Lutz" == Lutz Horn <lh at lutz-horn.de> writes:
>> What might be better is a simple webpage with distributions
>> categorized by the following criteria:
>>
>> a) Consists entirely of Free Software
>>
>> b) Free-Software-only version is available
>>
>> c) Can be turned into Free-Software-only without too much of a
>> hassle
>>
>> d) Difficult or impossible to use without non-free software
Lutz> This should include the way updates for packages are provided and
Lutz> which tools are needed to add them to the system. As far as I know
Lutz> even SuSE uses RPM these days put adding updated RPMs to the
Lutz> system _not_ using yast could be a little bit of a problem.
Maybe better classifications would be:
c) Includes non-free packages that can be easily removed
and
d) Uses non-free software as an integral part of the distribution itself
Gruß,
Lars
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