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Re: other debian installer tactic?



On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:02:23 +0200
Alfredo Valles <alfredo@bioinfo.cu> wrote:

> On Tuesday 26 August 2003 5:58 am, Kent West wrote:
> 
> > Wonderful goal! But what you're asking for is a different distribution,
> > which has been done already: Corel, Libranet, Knoppix, Xandros, etc.
> 
> What bothers me about these distros is that even if they are debian based
> you can not upgrade transparently your system to follow debian
> repositories, in a way they try to trap you, cause they make money from
> it. 

That's not true of either Xandros or Libranet. (It was true of Corel though,
and IMO it was one reason that distro died.)

Kevin



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