Re: LGPL : Was :[Cooker] Mandrake 7.1-BETA (Hydrogen) is available.

2000-04-26 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Pixel wrote: LGPL stand for "Library GPL" bhh... not true anymore. tis Lesser GPL now :pp RMS recommends GPL even for libraries Certainly he would. The GPL takes away rights that the LGPL left to the user. Don't be fooled. The GPL is far from Free Software. It is

Re: [Cooker] Distribution Style

2000-04-07 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, dcalford wrote: One of my biggest complaints is the fact that some single packages do not include the whole package. What I mean by this is, I try to install Package A, then find I need Package B, then find that Package B needs Package C. I would prefer to install

Re: [Cooker] Distribution Style

2000-04-07 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, dcalford wrote: Hi Richard Richard Wackerbarth wrote: Why is this better than a package loader which determines the dependancies and downloads all the missing files? That assumes that the package loader has access to the net. Well, if you don't have connectivity

Re: [Cooker] Linux vs NT

2000-03-23 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, you wrote: The latest 'Linux is crap because' are : 1) 'Linux is only capable of blocking'. I thought Unix became non blocking about 1980, but I'm not sure. If it did I assume Linux is as well. Linux wasn't non-blocking in 1980. It wasn't ... As for Unix, are you sure

Re: [Cooker] initscripts trouble

2000-03-19 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
anything ? I saw the same thing. Setting the tty seem to fix it. But I do think that this should be done in the default setup. -- Richard Wackerbarth [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] Re: A couple of outstanding problems...

2000-03-17 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, you wrote: "Brian J. Murrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: from the quill of Francis GALIEGUE [EMAIL PROTECTED] on scroll Hmm, what does "quill" mean? :) A quill is a feather. They are hollow and were used to make writing instruments. (Quill pen) The user had to dip it