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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