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  1. Oct 17th, 2002, 04:04 PM #1
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    legal?

    is it legal to distribute copies of linux distributions liks redhat, mandrake, etc. ?

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  2. Oct 17th, 2002, 04:12 PM #2
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    Yep, as long as it's the same thing that's downloadable.

    I don't think SuSE is downloadable so keep an eye out for that. Well, at least it wasn't about a year ago when I tried it, I got a demo. It was pretty nice actually but I couldn't change any settings.
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    SuSE's my favourite distrobution. The only difference between it and others is that it forces you to do an FTP install (create a boot floppy, insert your network/modem info, and specify the ftp site, and it downloads everything you want it to, in the way of packages). Also it has a CD that you can boot from (maybe this is what you suggested Justin?) that will not install anything but contains a static image of the distrobution that you can tinker with.
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  4. Oct 17th, 2002, 06:41 PM #4
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    Yeah SuSe isn't too bad, I still killed it on my laptop though
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    If you want a good fully downloadable OS, go Mandrake 9.0, they've really 'reformed' since 8.2, which sucked buckets.
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  7. Oct 17th, 2002, 07:36 PM #6
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    You can redistribute it as long as that particular distro only contains GPL software.

    EG: The server versions of RedHat contain commercial software...you can't simply copy that around. Not legally at least.

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