[svlug] Who is the Demon Penguin?

Deirdre Saoirse deirdre at deirdre.net
Thu Mar 18 22:01:25 PST 1999


On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Justin Ryan [PHT] wrote:

> At the risk of sounding competetive ;p so does PHT with TurboLinux.

I didn't feel qualified to discuss TL as I've barely seen it.

However, note that "free" as in "no cost" isn't the same as "free" as in
FSF.

> WordPerfect is the only non-opensource software that ships with our core
> distribution.  our other products include various commercial packages but
> those are not the core distribution.. afaik SuSe doesn't come with
> anything that isn't free either

Geez, there's a whole CD full of non-free stuff!

>, nor slackware.. it may not all be GNU of
> course, but free.. I think KDE is the only thing shipping with TL that is
> not GNU licensed

I'm sure there's WAY more than that.

SuSE has Applix (demo), StarOffice, KDE, OpenSound, and so on...
 
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