Re: RedHat and Linux emulation

2006-03-05 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Ramiro Aceves wrote: Hello. Just for curiosity, yesterday I was thinking about Linux emulation and redhat OpenBSD packages. I would like to know if it is planned to switch to some more free Linux distribution like Debian instead of Red Hat to be used as the base system for Linux emulation. Than

Re: RedHat and Linux emulation

2006-03-03 Thread David Terrell
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 01:58:27PM +0100, Paul de Weerd wrote: > Using another distribution (freely downloadable etc) will make it > easier to update the port in case of security issues after Red Hat > stopped fixing bugs in their legacy RPM's. > > Not a very strong point, I agree, but a point non

Re: RedHat and Linux emulation

2006-03-03 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 11:32:58AM +0100, Hannah Schroeter wrote: | Hello! | | On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:54:35AM +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote: | >Just for curiosity, yesterday I was thinking about Linux emulation and | >redhat OpenBSD packages. I would like to know if it is planned to | >switch to s

Re: RedHat and Linux emulation

2006-03-03 Thread Antonios Anastasiadis
by the way,what is the status of the openoffice native port? On 3/3/06, Reyk Floeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ted Unangst wrote: > > you can use whatever libraries you like. what's the point of a "more > > free" distro when the only use for emulation is to run non-free > > software? > > > > o

Re: RedHat and Linux emulation

2006-03-03 Thread Reyk Floeter
Ted Unangst wrote: you can use whatever libraries you like. what's the point of a "more free" distro when the only use for emulation is to run non-free software? or non-portable software like OpenOffice reyk

Re: RedHat and Linux emulation

2006-03-02 Thread Ted Unangst
On 3/2/06, Ramiro Aceves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In what exact way is Debian more free than Redhat with respect to the > > portions OpenBSD takes for the emulation stuff? > > I am not an expert in this kind of issues, I just have some curiosity. > You understand what I mean, RedHat 9 was the

Re: RedHat and Linux emulation

2006-03-02 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello > In what exact way is Debian more free than Redhat with respect to the > portions OpenBSD takes for the emulation stuff? I am not an expert in this kind of issues, I just have some curiosity. You understand what I mean, RedHat 9 was the latest freely available RH version. RH 9 is becoming

Re: RedHat and Linux emulation

2006-03-02 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:54:35AM +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote: >Just for curiosity, yesterday I was thinking about Linux emulation and >redhat OpenBSD packages. I would like to know if it is planned to >switch to some more free Linux distribution like Debian instead of Red >Hat to be used a

RedHat and Linux emulation

2006-03-02 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello. Just for curiosity, yesterday I was thinking about Linux emulation and redhat OpenBSD packages. I would like to know if it is planned to switch to some more free Linux distribution like Debian instead of Red Hat to be used as the base system for Linux emulation. Thanks in advance. Ramiro.