Hi Rodney: Some clarifications are necessary.
Companies, such as Omnipilot Software who own Lasso, maintain complete control of their products; they determine: 1. How an evaluation copy of the commercial product which terminates within a defined period of time, may be acquired. 2. How this commercial product is available for purchase. More details from that company, which you may already be familiar with, regarding Lasso are available here: http://www.omnipilot.com/FAQs.1756.lasso Currently it appears that they don't allow Lasso to exist as a General Public License (GPL) product nor do they appear to have a similar license approaching the GPL in some way. An organization called Open Source Initiative (OSI) exists as a means for individuals (and companies) to review what is defined under the GPL or under other licenses which approach the GPL in some manner. It should be understood that there are no obligations that any company or individual must support or participate in open source efforts as defined within the GPL. Some companies, like Apple (as well as IBM and others), participate within the open source effort within a license which allows and supports their views and protects their unique interests and products -- these unique licenses explain these different approaches to how these companies contribute and participate within the open source framework or concept. Also these various licenses allow a distinction regarding what products or portions of their products are considered as open source and which portions of the same are commercial or proprietary. You can learn more of these licenses from here: http://www.opensource.org/ How the above affects you: As you are moving to YDL you will have to use open source programs which can either be compiled for use within YDL or are already compiled for use within YDL. Essentially this means that you or someone will have to carefully research what open source, read GPL, product exists which can replace Lasso and other products like Lasso which you have been accustomed to. There is another distinction you may find helpful. YDL runs on PowerPC processors only. Red Hat produces Linux which runs only on Intel and compatible processors. YDL can run a great deal of what has been written for Red Hat -- unless that open source program has been designed to be run exclusively on Intel and compatible processors. Although it is possible to independently research and determine what open source packages and applications you may need to replace proprietary applications such as Lasso; it may be faster to review the 3rd Party applications determined as functioning with YDL. That listing is available here: http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/ydl/3rd_party/ Each category reveals another listing below it. This should help your efforts to replace commercial software with open source applications. Good Luck.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rodney Poplin wrote: > This may be a lame question but I am trying to port over my OS X > server to YDL and programs I use and reply on like Lasso have Red Hat > builds. Will these builds work on YDL? > I have found most of the programs I need to port have Red Hat builds. > Please give me info on yes or maybe or ...... > --------------------- > Thank you, > Rodney Poplin > > > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-newbie mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie > > _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
