[CentOS] A minor beef
Tim Edwards
tim at registriesltd.com.au
Tue Nov 29 22:01:18 UTC 2005
Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Yep, Red Hat and only select others really strive to do keep the 100%
> redistributable components separate from the non-redistributable
> components.
>
> It seems Novell does want to do this with SuSE, but as of even OpenSuSE
> 10.0 (as I've seen it), they have not yet (please correct me if I'm
> wrong, and 9.3 was the last release that didn't).
>
> Debian has always excelled at marketing everything. But don't confuse
> their _official_ repository "NON-FREE" category with non-Debian,
> additional repositories that add stuff to the "NON-FREE" category.
Both Suse and Ubuntu have only Open Source packages on their
downloadable CD/DVD images, just like Redhat. In fact you'll find that
most, if not all, Linux distros only have open source (ie.
redistributable) software in their downloadable versions. As with RHEL
or Centos you can add extra repos after the install to get closed-source
(eg. Java) or questionable (eg. win32codecs) packages, for example for
OpenSuse: http://www.opensuse.org/Package_Repositories
Far from being the exception with a few others, the way that Redhat does
it is the rule.
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Tim Edwards
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