Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Mon, 4 Jan 1999 02:17:07 +0300 (MSK)


In <199901030857.AAA20944@bitmover.com> Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com) wrote:
> "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@kf8nh.apk.net>
> : Why should config.guess care what vendor variant of Linux is used? It's
> : mostly irrelevant; the differences are things which differ on other systems
> : as well and therefore should be tracked by non-Linux-specific rules.

> Because redhat/debian/slackware/suse put admin stuff in different places
> and under different names.

> It is useful information to see redhat/suse/etc - gnu-linux tells me
> nothing more than Stallman is being a twit. I don't really care if it
> is redhat+gnu-linux or suse+gnu-linux, but it is a total lose to not
> have the correct vendor in there somewhere.

Why superdistro-linux (for local distribution superdistro :-) is any better
then gnu-linux ?

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