Hey thats a IDEA, stick NDS on a CD and ship it. Its about time Novell got into the game. > 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 -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
