After digging throught my sent box I pulled this back out, I post this back to Mike a while back, this was not insulting to him outside of him being pissed at the Donald Becker comment. So lets get this straight I didn't as for a proprietary driver, MPL is not proprietary and if it is Mozilla is proprietary. If I remember his post back he insulted my posting by comparing it to a root canal. That made it personal. So lets get it straight. >Ok, maybe OpenLDAP does come w/ it. My mistake - but when you click to >do a FULL INSTALL it doesn't. >And great RH doesn't support Binary Modules - you can get a source >version compile it on your own and then send it out as a binary. >Or maybe I am getting it wrong here, lemme look at it the other way. You >don't want to support the project of a module? >If so then why dist software at all? >It just a piece of software that POSSIBLE could be borken when you ship >it but that should be no concern of yours considering XMMS & Postgres :) >Just ship the damn module so RH 8.1 or whatever can support about 75% of >the wireless NICS on the market. >This discussion reminds me of the pre Donald Becker days and dealing w/ >regular NIC cards. > On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, David Durst wrote: > >>I recently upgraded from RH 7.3 to 8.0 and at first I loved it, the I >> realized that it kind of sucked. >> >>Let me explain and I will get to my suggestions about the way RHs Next >> major released should be. >> >>1st. Lack of REAL Software (OpenLDAP) > > Perhaps you did not get a copy of the official Red Hat Linux 8.0 then. > Red Hat Linux 8.0 does come with openldap. > > [root@devel /]# cat /etc/redhat-release ; rpm -q openldap > Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche) > openldap-2.0.25-1 > > >>2nd. Lack of Wireless LAN Drivers (PRISM2) >> >>Ok now I know everyone is gonna jump on this and say that OpenLDAP (I >> don't think its GPL) and PRISM2 Drivers are not GPL. > > [root@devel /]# rpm -qi openldap | grep License > Size : 1215211 License: OpenLDAP > > >>Well that is where my suggestion comes in, in 7.3 Staroffice a >>NON-GPL software came w/ the dist. on a seperate CD. > > The distribution itself is comprised of open source CD images. > The boxed products come with some extra CDs which are NOT part of Red > Hat Linux, but which are bundled in with the OS inside the > box. StarOffice being one of those items in the past. > >>Does anyone support the IDEA of dist. NON-GPL software on a >>seperate CD??? > > The boxed set already comes with exactly that. > >>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. > > Red Hat does not support binary kernel modules. > >>Along w/ that is there is a serious need for a Directory Service so it >> is just a thought. > > Such as the openldap directory service that is included with Red Hat > Linux 8.0 perhaps? > > > -- > Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris > OS Systems Engineer > XFree86 maintainer > Red Hat Inc. > > > > -- > 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
