[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Beowulf non-us (was Re: New maintainer - intent to package LAM 6.1)



--On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 10:18 am +0000 "Andrew M.A.Cater [Andy]"
<amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk> wrote: 

> The Extreme Linux CD contains GPL'd softwsre packaged as .rpms and .srpms.
> Most of the CD is standard Red Hat 5.1: three or four specialist packages
> [beotools, kernel config, modified kernel sources] are _only_ available
> as .rpms / .srpms. The Beowulf people as NASA are using Red Hat
exclusively:
> AFAICS there are no pristine tarballs. What is the Right Thing to do?

As an aside, I was told yesterday that beowulf had been ruled
non-exportable, since it creates a supercomputer from PCs, and
super-computers are non-exportable.

So are the beowulf tools going to have to go in non-us?

Jules


/----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\
|  Jelibean aka  | jules@jellybean.co.uk         |  6 Evelyn Rd        |
|  Jules aka     | jules@debian.org              |  Richmond, Surrey   |
|  Julian Bean   | jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk        |  TW9 2TF *UK*       |
+----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+
|  Debian GNU/Linux - "Microsoft *does* have a year 2000 problem -     |
|                      and we're it!" (paraphrased from IRC)           |
\----------------------------------------------------------------------/



--  
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org


Reply to: