Re: [Sheflug] Pink Tie Linux 8.0

[David Holden <nospam [at] xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 07:39, Alex Hudson wrote:

> > By the way is it true that SUSE don't allow you to download ISOs for
> > their distribution and isn't this a little more annoying, at least I can
> > (for the moment) do this with redhat?
> 
> That's correct, but SuSE has had licencing issues for a long time now.
> YaST itself is not Free Software, for example, which means you have to
> be very careful about how and when you redistribute SuSE - this is why
> you don't see it available in a 'cheap' edition, unlike RedHat.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alex.


Yes, I mention this because it does seem a popular distro among sheflug
users (well the ones that have been to meetings recently) which given
these licensing issues surprises me.

  
 Dave.




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