[H-GEN] Kernel source

[Harry Phillips]

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Rick Phillips wrote:
> 
>>So you only get the source if you pay for the powerpack? How did they
>>get around the GPL? It was my understanding that you had to
>>supply the
>>source as well as the binary.
> 
> 
> I don't know about that Harry but what you and I have got is pre-release
> stuff.

Yeah I began to suspect something along those lines earlier today. I 
checked around on the local mirrors and didn't find the mandrake 9.2 
iso's anywhere.

>  Mandrake has a whole swag of iterations with this release -
> Discovery Pack, Desktop Pack. Power Pack, Pro Pack, OEM Pack, Enterprise
> Edition and more.  They have been polling their customers to find out what
> is wanted and these different packs are the result. 

At the graphical login it says 'Download edition' in the bottom right 
corner is that version going to change at all?

Any ideas when the "Official" iso's are going to be released?

> 
> Mandrake and SuSE in the aforementioned tend to be
> "bleeding edge", trying very hard to keep up with new hardware releases.

They also have alot of nifty things that when first used are "ah isn't 
that cute" but after getting used to it you really miss it when you 
don't have it.

An example is the single tab line completion, man I *hate* it when RH 
beeps at me then I have to hit tab again. Like just shut up and fill out 
the rest for you stupid piece .... well you can guess the rest.

I just hope I can find the setting for the single tab thing so that I 
get Gentoo up and running it doesn't beep at me too. Any ideas anyone? 
Or should I STFW.

Another thing I like in 9.2 is the "watermark" effect at the CLI.

> 
> For the record though, the kernel source code for the download edition
> (probably only temporary) is available at
> ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/raid/4/mandrake/updates/9.2/SRPMS/ along with 248
> Mb of updates for 9.2 in the RPMS directory.
> 

yeah I have already downloaded the source and the updates (except all 
the kernel ones). I was mostly peeved because I was at HUMBUG the night 
before and could get 2 x 200k/s. When I realised I needed the 40+M of 
kernel-source (because the CD's don't have it) I was at home on my 56k 
modem. :(

I knew I could find the source somewhere just annoyed I couldn't find on 
the CD's. So is providing the source at an FTP site instead of the CD's 
comply with the GPL? What about people with no access to the net? They 
then don't have access to the source code.

-- 
Regards,
Harry Phillips
--- Failure is not an option,
     it comes bundled with your Microsoft product.


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