On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 03:48:48PM +0100, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Friday, 14 October 2005 13:45, Andreas Simon wrote: > > This is unfair. If you say Mandriva is based on Red Hat than you should say > > SUSE is based on Slackware (you know it started as a German version of > > Slackware) or later on Jurix (starting with S.u.S.E. Linux 4.2). Today both > > Mandriva and SUSE are great distros on their own, no longer based on some > > other distro with some added value. > > > > Cheers, > > Andreas > > Thanks for correcting me: it's perfectly true that Mandrake separated from > the > Red Hat base a long time ago. As for the Slackware roots of SuSE I never knew > that, when I discovered it (after attempting an odl Slackware) I didn't > notice it.
What about me? I posted the same thing but sooner. If you bought 8.1 the calander it came with had this info in there. > Note that I would say I was "wrong" rather than "unfair" - I don't see > anything discreditable to develop a distribution based on another (as long as > it is permitted). There are many Debian-based distributions that fullfill > different needs than the original (but that would not exist but for the > original Debian) and I hope that the existence of OSS will be the seed for > "SuSE-based" distribution. Just one example: I was today installing a > "disaster-system" on a 1GB partition on my laptop: SuSE 10 would not do (even > after deselecting lots of things they would come back to "satisfy > dependancies" so I had to digg up an old 8.0 which still has a "minimum > installation" available. So if anyone created a "SuSE-based distro thet will > fit on half a gigabyte" I would welcome it. > > Thierry > > -- > The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a > capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the > safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? > Frank Zappa > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
