Thought this may be of interest to many on the list. Cheers. -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 23:46:58 +0100 From: Kevin Taylor <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: northants at mailman.lug.org.uk To: northants at mailman.lug.org.uk Subject: [Northants] Fwd: [Lbc-announce] Enquiries about a cheap version of Red Hat Linux 8.0 This is an interesting email ... I have not heard this about RedHat 8 before ... anyone else? Kevin. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [Lbc-announce] Enquiries about a cheap version of Red Hat Linux 8.0 Date: 02 Oct 2002 10:42:54 +0100 From: John Winters <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I've been getting a number of enquiries about when we'll have a cheap version of Red Hat Linux 8.0. Unfortunately, Red Hat have moved the goal posts again. In a surprising move they've completely broken with their previous policy of 100% open source. The new distribution contains a few components which are (C) Red Hat and are *not* freely re-distributable. This has produced surprisingly little comment but the effect is that it's no longer possible to re-distribute copies of the standard download version of Red Hat Linux. For the company that has up to now been the champion of Open Source, it's a major direction change. It's not all bad news though. The problem components are in identified packages and Red Hat have said it's fine to re-distribute as long as they are first removed. I therefore hope that we will be able to do a Threads Linux 8.0. It will no longer be exactly the same as Red Hat, although it will be functionally identical. Cheers, John -- The Linux Emporium - the source for Linux in the UK See http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/ We had a woodhenge here once but it rotted. _______________________________________________ Northants Linux Users Group: Disclaimer: http://www.northants.lug.org.uk/disclaim.htm List Help: http://www.northants.lug.org.uk/maillist.htm Northants Linux Help Pages: http://www.northants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/nlugwiki/wiki.pl?LinuxHelpPages
