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Alex Charrett wrote: | On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 21:44, Kai Hendry wrote: | |>>Is the nvidia driver under a free licence? I didn't think so. |> |>Pine doesn't have a free license for bins, but RH run it. I am sure RH |>run a lot of "non-free" software. It is no excuse imo. | | | Fair point but I think they removed xv some years ago for not being | free, perhaps it's some subjective view on levels of freeness? :) |
I thought Red Hat were pretty serious about the free issue compared to the other similar distributions. Granted, it has never occurred to me to inspect the license for Pine.
Upgraded the laptop on Thursday with a copy I picked up at the Expo - you can definitely opt not to install OpenOffice if you wish and it was on an ever growing list of things I uncheck which basically make your system a dog ( subjective, I know, but Nautilus? )
For some reason, I always need to tweak X with Red Hat so there I am, typing `Xconfigurator' and... nothing.
So I'm like, ummm, `locate *config* | grep -i X' and I get this `redhat-config-X' thing which, believe it or not, actually starts an X server for you to configure using a graphical dialog. How things have changed ;)
Other notable differences include Apache 2 and Perl 5.8 as standard. I installed Gnome to see what all the fuss was about and it is not particularly different - still unusable on a P133, I presume KDE is the same. The install thingy is the same but is now GTK so it look a little bit nicer. Some funny jiggery-pokery has happened to all my fonts, although I haven't had time to find out what yet.
I use Galeon quite a lot and, although not strictly relevant, it was nice to see that various slightly annoying bugs have been fixed in that now.
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