[Northants] Fwd: [Lbc-announce] Enquiries about a cheap version of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (fwd)

[Toby Fisher]

Thought this may be of interest to many on the list.

Cheers.


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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 23:46:58 +0100
From: Kevin Taylor <kevin at eala.uklinux.net>
Reply-To: northants at mailman.lug.org.uk
To: northants at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [Northants] Fwd: [Lbc-announce] Enquiries about a cheap version of
    Red Hat Linux 8.0

This is an interesting email ... I have not heard this about
RedHat 8 before ... anyone else?

Kevin.

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Subject: [Lbc-announce] Enquiries about a cheap version of Red Hat Linux 8.0
Date: 02 Oct 2002 10:42:54 +0100
From: John Winters <john at linuxemporium.co.uk>


I've been getting a number of enquiries about when we'll have a cheap
version of Red Hat Linux 8.0.

Unfortunately, Red Hat have moved the goal posts again.  In a surprising
move they've completely broken with their previous policy of 100% open
source.  The new distribution contains a few components which are (C)
Red Hat and are *not* freely re-distributable.  This has produced
surprisingly little comment but the effect is that it's no longer
possible to re-distribute copies of the standard download version of Red
Hat Linux.  For the company that has up to now been the champion of Open
Source, it's a major direction change.

It's not all bad news though.  The problem components are in identified
packages and Red Hat have said it's fine to re-distribute as long as
they are first removed.  I therefore hope that we will be able to do a
Threads Linux 8.0.  It will no longer be exactly the same as Red Hat,
although it will be functionally identical.

Cheers,
John

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