Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 00:16:01 +0100 (GMT) From: Eridani Star System <linux@eridani.demon.co.uk> To: letters@lwn.net Subject: Distributions 22 July 1999 I wish to set the record straight. You quote: > This week, the announcement of Eridani Star System, which is not just > based on Red Hat but is actually the Red Hat 6.0 GPL version with all > updates applied, reopened the question. Can a new distribution be said to > have been created if its creators/maintainers have added no new material > to the distribution? I can only assume when you wrote that you didn't actually look at the web site you link in. If you did, you'll have noticed that we have added a LOT to the Eridani Red Hat 6 discs. ALSA alevt htmldoc icewm irqtune JDK lesstif licq Mesa SANE Speak Freely SSH Synaesthesa Tinyfugue viewfax VNC xawtv xview xfstt ...and the FTP version of WordPerfect 8 (minus the key from linux.corel.com, of course). Also thrown in is a PDF version of the Maximum RPM book (converted from the tex source code from Red Hat). The latest 2.2 kernel is also available as a tarball. -- Michael "Soruk" McConnell Eridani Star System -- The Most Up-to-Date Red Hat Linux CDROMs Available Email: linux@amush.cx http://www.amush.cx/linux