On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 05:14, David Durst wrote: > Does anyone support the IDEA of dist. NON-GPL software on a seperate CD??? > I think it would make alot of people much happier if they didn't have to > go reading through mailing lists to find out how to get a Netgear wireless > NIC > to work under 8.0. Along w/ that is there is a serious need for a > Directory Service so it is just a thought. Debian has a whole tree of what they call non-free software that is not part of the official disto, but provided for people who want it. SuSE has an entire section of software in their "commercial" series that comes with their distro and can be installed with YaST2 like any GPL program. Then, there are distos that make no distinction between commercial and GPL software like Lycoris and Lindows. I've used every major distro out there and I think you'll find things to like and dislike about every one. Since I don't use Windows at all, I tend to spend a lot of time tweaking my system to be exactly what I want. With some distros, the amount of work I need to do is higher than with others. Red Hat does ship with a directory service, the old reliable NIS. While OpenLDAP will work fine for login authentication, I don't think it supports NFS netgroups yet and probably some other things you might want. On the other hand, NIS is not considered very secure and is showing some age. If you want a modern directory, Novell's NDS is supposed to run natively on Linux now but I've never tried it, and of course, it is not free in any sense. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ We drive on this highway of fire Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
