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• Journal day (Score:1)

  by cog (4665)

  3rd entry. It's journal-day

  Pretty soon you'll start receiving comments in the wrong journal entry, as TorgoX has.
• What is one click? (Score:2)

  by ajt (2546)

  I played with that tool too, and was somewhat perplexed by the one-click install question. I know anything based on apt/deb is pretty much just click, and it does the rest. I believe rpm distro can also do this too, but I don't claim to know about that.

  It's my long standing belief that the best Linux distro is the one you like.

  --
  -- "It's not magic, it's work..."
• Mandriva, Freedom, and LDC (Score:1)

  by n1vux (1492)

  I'm very glad to see both Mandriva/Mandrake and Slackware recover from their lean times. I hope Mandriva's business model is still viable now that they aren't the only easy install graphical desktop distro. The Linux Distro Chooser (LDC) [zegeniestudios.net] is a Beta tool, so it's not surprising it has some rough edges. It's a good idea though. So it's good to help make it better. My comments:

  • I could wish the Yes/No icons were active, instead of having to hit the smaller Yes/No words;
  • dragging the mouse from the last Quest

  --
  Bill
  # I had a sig when sigs were cool
  use Sig;
  • Re:Mandriva, Freedom, and LDC (Score:2)

    by rafael (2125)

    The free-as-in-beer Mandriva distribution you can download contains only OSS. Things like Acrobat Reader, Flash et alii must be bought. So, yes, to packs are not OSS-only. But software updates for OSS are (like all OSS packaged for Mandriva) also available free of charge. They're mostly security updates and bug fixes.
    • Re:Mandriva, Freedom, and LDC (Score:1)

      by n1vux (1492)

      Ahh. LDC [zegeniestudios.net] is describing the main or commercial version of Mandriva/Mandrake, full "Membership" version, since it lists the commercially licensed extras installed automagically as an advantage (Why would you want non-free? to get these goodies easily, it basically says.)

      So the downloadable ISO edition (called the free Demo in LDC or DistroWatch [distrowatch.com]) is free in both senses, but also free (3rd sense) of the ease of use of the thou-shalt-no-redistribute items.

      Perhaps their rules-base needs two entries, one for

      --
      Bill
      # I had a sig when sigs were cool
      use Sig;
• Free? (Score:2)

  by htoug (771)

  The Linux chooser also states that SuSE 9.3 is free. Someone must have mixed up their free/not-free bits, as the latest version of SuSE available for download is 9.2.