non-free software
Hello,
I have just installed debian from cdrom (infomagic),
and some of my favorite packages, available
on Red Hat, are missing from the Debian
distribution. These packages (netpbm , xv) are in the non-free
subdirectory of packages in www.debian.org, but in the distributions
available on cdroms ( I checked other cdroms).
I understand there may be restrictions on distributions of some
packages, but if others can include it why cannot Debian? Debian
seems to have the larger of packages than other distributions
but they are missing some rather basic packages?
By the way, I found that one advantage of Debian over Red Hat, is that one
does not have to get X11 up before installing packages. In Red
Hat, the primary package installer is glint which depends on X11.
If one can't get X11 running, one may have lots of work.
King Lee
ultrix6.cs.csubak.edu
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