Re: RedHat linux development

2000-07-06 Thread Thomas Dodd
"Mike A. Harris" wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Thomas Dodd wrote: > > >> > Some programs are just best kept in /dev/null... ;o) > >> > >> Yup, and it's landed there - I can't find a copy anywhere anymore. > > > >I think it's on my 6 disc PowerTools/archives for Feb 1997. > >RedHat 4.1 (x86, al

Re: RedHat linux development

2000-07-05 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Thomas Dodd wrote: >> > Some programs are just best kept in /dev/null... ;o) >> >> Yup, and it's landed there - I can't find a copy anywhere anymore. > >I think it's on my 6 disc PowerTools/archives for Feb 1997. >RedHat 4.1 (x86, alpha, and Sparc plus FTP archives) >If anyo

Re: RedHat linux development

2000-07-05 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Matt Wilson wrote: >Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 09:55:43 -0400 >From: Matt Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: RedHat linux development > >s/RedHat/Red Hat/g ;o) I'm used to typing your directory names on the CDROM. /re

Re: RedHat linux development

2000-07-05 Thread Thomas Dodd
Matt Wilson wrote: > > s/RedHat/Red Hat/g > > On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 04:59:56AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Matt Wilson wrote: > > >Red Hat did not develop Red Baron. It was developed by Spyglass > > >(Spyglass Moasic anyone? :) > > > > Hmmm. I wasn't aware of that at

Re: RedHat linux development

2000-07-05 Thread Matt Wilson
s/RedHat/Red Hat/g On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 04:59:56AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Matt Wilson wrote: > >Red Hat did not develop Red Baron. It was developed by Spyglass > >(Spyglass Moasic anyone? :) > > Hmmm. I wasn't aware of that at all. I ran it once, said YIKES, > an

Re: RedHat linux development

2000-07-05 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Matt Wilson wrote: >> >None of them was developed by us (and we can't pick the licenses other >> >people choose) - all the stuff we develop ourselves is GPL or LGPL. >> >> Right, I knew that, but I knew that RedHat did sell stuff (at >> least in the past) that was non-GPL, bu

Re: RedHat linux development

2000-07-05 Thread Matt Wilson
s/RedHat/Red Hat/g On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 12:31:11AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > Ok, great. I wasn't aware RedHat no longer sold Motif. Also, I > didn't believe Lesstif or OpenMotif were as compatible. I'm > assuming that they are and that that is why Motif was dropped? Lesstif is usef

Re: RedHat linux development

2000-07-04 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: >> >ONLY major Linux distribution that releases ALL their software under a GPL >> >license, >> >> For the record, RedHat has software such as Motif, > >Not true. We used to have some Motif years ago, before Lesstif got >anywhere near usable. Righ

Re: RedHat linux development

2000-07-03 Thread Matt Wilson
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 07:44:33PM +0200, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > SuSE did NOT GPL their installer (It's license basically says "you may > read the source, but you may not use it in other projects"). > Caldera's installer used to be proprietary; I think they've published the > source only

Re: RedHat linux development

2000-07-03 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote: > >ONLY major Linux distribution that releases ALL their software under a GPL > >license, > > For the record, RedHat has software such as Motif, Not true. We used to have some Motif years ago, before Lesstif got anywhere near usable. Right now, we have

Re: RedHat linux development

2000-07-03 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Nitebirdz wrote: >I wouldn't overlook this licensing issue though. The original poster is >right that a lot of people are bashing Red Hat for who knows what reason >but in most cases they're simply beeing deeply unfair. Red Hat is the I agree with this 100%. >ONLY major Li

Re: RedHat linux development

2000-07-02 Thread kevin
Matt Wilson wrote: > I'd say that our key areas in heavy development are ---8<--snip Thanks for the reply, I relayed much of the content to our LUG group in Sydney Australia and wrote up a little article on our web site at www.oceania.net. Hope this sets a few minds straigh

Re: RedHat linux development

2000-07-01 Thread Nitebirdz
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Ingo Luetkebohle wrote: > On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 08:27:38AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is there any devel co-operation with XFree, ALSA , > > ReiserFS and other projects? > > They are openly supporting gtk and gnome. On top of that, a lot of RedHat > employees are w

Re: RedHat linux development

2000-07-01 Thread Matt Wilson
I'd say that our key areas in heavy development are: * kernel - raid (Ingo) - vm (Igno, Ben, sct) - filesystem work (sct) - VFS (Al Viro) - sparc (Jakub Jelinek and Dave Miller) - networking (Dave Miller, Ingo) - everything under the sun (Alan Cox. :) - SCSI (aic7xxx), processor o

Re: RedHat linux development

2000-07-01 Thread Ingo Luetkebohle
On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 08:27:38AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there any devel co-operation with XFree, ALSA , > ReiserFS and other projects? They are openly supporting gtk and gnome. On top of that, a lot of RedHat employees are working quite actively on a number of projects (HA comes t

Re: RedHat linux development

2000-06-30 Thread Alex Kanavin
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > eg What devel projects is RH involved with > Is there any devel co-operation with XFree, ALSA , > ReiserFS and other projects? Well, they are quite involved with gtk+ and GNOME. And they employ Alan Cox too. I suggest you take a look at http://www.la

RedHat linux development

2000-06-30 Thread kevin
I have a query regarding redhats involvement with the open source community. I ask as there has been quite a bit of RH bashing on our local LUG mailing list and I thought, why not ask what RH is doing to further the cause of linux development. eg What devel projects is RH involved with Is there an