[plug] Non-free debian distro

Vaughan Healy vaughan at healy.net
Sat Feb 5 05:02:09 WST 2005


Hello all once again,

The only one that comes to my mind is Progeny:

http://www.progeny.com/about/index.html

The latest release, Progeny Debian 2.0 Developer Edition RC1 and is 
available via:

http://componentizedlinux.org/progeny/downloads

HTH,

Vaughan

Chris Caston wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 14:07, Rowan Sutherland wrote:
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>
>>I was just wondering if there are any non-free Debian style
>>distributions of Linux out there.
>>
>>Novell have got their commercial version of Suse out there where they
>>are obliged to provide some support for their software. However,
>>Debian seems to have much better hardware support available and their
>>package management system is better.
>>
>>If there was a large company who provided support (not just the
>>consulting firm who rolls it out), it would be easier to respond to
>>the typical objections (such as accountability) when trying to
>>implement Debian solutions.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Rowan
>>
>>
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>With a proposed LTSP implementation the for a real estate agency the
>biggest hurdles are support for Word, Excel, Frontpage, MYOB and their
>random digital cameras. 
>
>There were no objections on the subject of "accountability" 
>
>regards,
>
>Chris
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