From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Jan 9 10: 8:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4724C37B6DE for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:07:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA2307; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:11:56 -0800 Message-ID: <3A5B52C5.BB90E782@acuson.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 10:04:53 -0800 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Konrad Heuer Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: any Linux distros which are not Open Source? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Konrad Heuer wrote: > For example, as far as I know, you > won't be able the get source code of yast or yast2, the SuSE Linux > administration tool. And what's about Corel Linux? Will they put all their > special work to open source? I don' believe so. What I know is that Debian > Linux is the only one which is open source completely. Not really. If you don't count third-party end user applications as part of the operating system (I sure don't), then most Linux distros are 100% open source. I'm most familiar with Slackware, and it certainly is. The only thing in it that isn't open source is Netscape and xv (and OpenMotif which is in contribs). Funny thing, Debian also has those. They may separate them out into a "non-free" directory, but they still get shipped on the CDs. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message