heh - OpenBSD has its own share of licensing showdowns ;-)

take care,
M

On Friday, August 13, 2004, at 08:55  pm, lex at cc.gatech.edu wrote:

>
>> Debian is of course another option, though if you don't
>> have direct internet access, I get the impression you'll be losing out
>> by choosing such a communally oriented distro. Perhaps not.
>
> Actually, I'd guess that most Debian users are plain old users that 
> grab
> packages and never give anything back.  You can perfectly well obtain
> some Debian CD's and install everything from those and away you go.
>
> I don't think there's anything particularly heavy about Debian compared
> to other Linux distros.  You certainly don't have to install anything
> like KDE or Gnome or OpenOffice if you don't want to.
>
> The main possible nuisance that comes to mind is that they do reject a
> lot of software licenses; not even open source ones are always
> acceptible.  The first thing you'll have to do, for example, is of
> course to add the site for the Squeak packages to your
> /etc/apt/sources.list file!  :)
>
>
> -Lex
>