[GEM Development] version of opengem for easy use for windows
users
Lyrical Nanoha
lyricalnanoha at dosius.ath.cx
Tue May 9 21:56:55 PDT 2006
On Tue, 9 May 2006, Shane M. Coughlan wrote:
> I guess the most important thing is that plan exactly what you want. Do
> you want to include applications, or do you want to have a really
> minimal system? For instance, traditionally OpenGEM has had two
> version. OpenGEM Core (or GEMini as it was previously known) and
> OpenGEM Complete.
>
> OpenGEM 6 will be a little different from previous releases, because I
> plan to drop some of the applications from OpenGEM Complete. The reason
> is to ensure that the installed main system has as much stability and as
> few bugs as possible, and it's also got to do with the sometimes
> potentially dubious nature of applications. All the DR origin
> applications, documents and language bindings are covered by the GNU GPL
> , but there are some other applications that came with the packages etc
> that have different origins. I will be dropping those I cannot confirm
> are GPL.
>
> I guess this could be a potential way for your distribution to gain both
> attention and users. I will be 'dropping' some applications, and you
> can 'gain' them :) I'm more than happy to coordinate with you so that
> you'll know ahead of time what OpenGEM 6 will ship with. In fact, given
> that I have not decided yet, you are welcome to be part of the audit
> process :) If you want to use the batch files included in OpenGEM it
> might pose technical problems on the Linux/Mac platforms. Perhaps
> someone could donate time to re-script things.
>
> It'll be nice to see some more FreeGEM distributions around. Now all we
> have to do is poke Owen with a stick until we see Owen Rudge FreeGEM 2.0.
I suppose I could start back up on my own distro that I never finished...
Of course, my opinion on what is covered by the GPL, is much more narrow
than some peoples'. (I interpret it to be *only* the AES, VDI, Desktop,
Output and drivers.)
-uso.
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