[plug] OT SCO anyone familier with it ?

Marc Wiriadisastra marc-w at smlintl.com.au
Thu Jul 29 14:05:40 WST 2004


My apologies I actually thought it was for all since that web site is 
proposing the gnu mantra so I would have thought that it would have a 
list of all gnu software.

Soz
Marc

James Devenish wrote:

>In message <410871BA.5030600 at smlintl.com.au>
>on Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:40:42AM +0800, Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:
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>>I believe if you want a list of all open source or gnu software the gnu 
>>main page has a link to a list.
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>Um, er...that's only true in as much as the GNU website contains a list
>of GNU software. However, it is NOT a list of "all open source software"
>nor even a list of "all software under a GNU licence". (In fact, it
>lists only a very small amount of open source software.) For instance,
>two of the programmes mentioned by Craig (OpenSSH and vim) are neither
>GNU projects nor GNU-licensed. The easiest place to find software is
>`apt-get search` (or equivalent) ;-) Open-source UNIX and Linux software
>can also be found more generally through Google or dedicated sites (e.g.
>http://www.freshmeat.org and http://www.sourceforge.net). And PLUG ;-)
>
>Craig Ringer wrote:
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>>You can get OpenSSH, GNU tar, bash, screen, vim, and all the other 
>>things that help keep an admin used to a modern system sane from 
>>skunkware.
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