[NTLUG:Discuss] July 17 - Caldera - Dallas program

[Bug Hunter]

  I looked at SUSE, and I think the installer is not GPL, which precludes
copying the CD's and distributing them.  Otherwise I'd be selling them at
first saturday.  The DEMO is ok to sell, but it is a DEMO.



On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 cbbrowne at ntlug.org wrote:

> Mark Bickel wrote:
> > Caldera - they've annoyed me enough that I'm probably going to switch.
> > SuSe anyone?
> 
> Unfortunately, SuSE has headed to the "installable images only available
> when you buy a boxed set" approach.
> 
> On the one hand, this may be partly the result of having _SO_ much stuff
> that they pretty much need to release DVDs, CD-ROMs being too small to
> cope with it.  On the other hand, it looks like you'll not be seeing
> LinuxCentral SuSE 7.1 CDs any time soon.
> 
> "Evil" though the GCC 2.96 issue may be, it looks as though RHAT and
> Mandrake may be the only RPM-based choices, with Debian remaining the
> "definitely staying libre" option. -- Christopher Browne
> <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/resume.html> cbbrowne at acm.org