No problem, but don't take my title, I am probably the newest newbie here! :) Buck -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of griffisb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 8:12 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: RE: Fedora and the System Administrator -- are my assumptions on SuSE incorrect? > I am running SuSE 8.2 Personal (also tried Mandrake 9.1 and briefly > tried Debian Woody). I may be wrong, but I believe that YaST and YaST2 > are not redistributable. Since YaST is the installer for SuSE, you end > up with something you can not freely load on other machines. I -MAY- > be wrong, but I think that is the whole reason behind not having > downloadable SuSE ISO's, and why on the few occasions you DO find SuSE > ISO's on a public FTP server, they are pulled quickly. > > That's part of the reason I am here. I am looking for a desktop > distribution that is freely distributable, easy to install, and that > will have good user guides. I would hope with a community project, you > do not pay for up2date - but use a similar tool - although I'm often > wrong. I feel that with the backing of RH, Fedora will meet all those > requirements. Since I'm downloading Severn ISO's right now, take my > above comments as a rank amatuer newbie. > > Guess I should have read the COMPLETE thread before posting. Good thing I had the "newbie" disclaimer in there. Thanks Buck for confirming that you can install SuSE on mutiple computers as long as no profit is involved. But I'll STILL give Fedora a test drive! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
