On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:56:29 +0200 Rubén Rodríguez <[email protected]> wrote:
> > the distro at least meets the most obvious > > criteria, like having an explicit commitment to free software. > > After the recent mail, I also added another check for GNU > > webmasters to make -- that the sources are readily available. > > Not all criteria are equally obvious to everybody. I've always thought > that having full independent mirrors for all binary and source > packages is mandatory. I think it is in fact what makes a > distribution: you distribute things, not a third party. Me too, but I've always thought of distributions as things like Debian/Fedora. the 'we provide scripts, you get the source' done by some of the diy distros is new to me :) kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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