Don't you mean to say free software? Greg On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 01:26:34PM -0600, Dawes, Stephen wrote: > Let's not get into distribution wars again. > > You can install as little or as much of Redhat as you like. It is no > different then any other distribution in that respect. One of the bigger > differences between distributions is the package manager. A number of > distributions including RedHat use RPM as the package manager. > Similarly, Debian, and I am sure others, use APT, or whatever it is > called, as their package manager. Granted they are other differences > between distributions, that I won't get into in this note because I > don't know of them all. What I will say though, is that before slamming > a one distribution over another, maybe take a step back and think of the > other operating system that is made to run on the pc platform that not > open source. Open source is why Linux is where it is today. Open source > is why there are so many different distributions. Instead of slamming a > distribution, or saying that one distribution is better then another, > why not work towards getting speakup working on the distribution that > the user brings to the discussion. After all, isn't it better to have > speakup working with Linux regardless of the distribution? I'd say so! > > > > Steve Dawes > PH: (403) 268-5527. > Mailto: sdawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Raul A. Gallegos [mailto:raul at asmodean.net] > > Sent: 2002 May 08 1:00 PM > > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > Subject: Re: Why does it need that much hard disk space? > > > > > > Ann Parsons said the following on Wed, May 08, 2002 at > > 02:50:39PM -0400: > > > Well, if you go with Red Hat, what do you expect? > > > > What do you mean? Does redhat install 3 gb worth of files? I don't > > think it does and I've never installed it. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
