On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 04:58:40PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 07:52, Sean Middleditch wrote: > > First, I don't want to start an argument... just gather opinions, mostly > > because I'm bored. ^,^ Is Debian really unique among GNU/Linux > > distros, or is it the only GNU/Linux distro? All the other popular > > distros are rather quite non-GNU, since they include (by default) loads > > of non-Free software... many of them even depend on that software being > > installed (SuSE, Open Linux, maybe Redhat). Does that not make them a > > proprietary Linux system with GNU roots? > > Red Hat used to have a distribution called "Red Hat Means Source" (RMS) > that was all free software. There's all the source distributions > (Gentoo, Sorcery, Sorcery GNU/Linux, more I'm forgetting) that have to > be primarily free software since you compile it all yourself. That you can compile it yourself doesn't mean that it is free software. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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