We volunteer to do that work (us being I and linux developer friends). We have several months' free time due to a semester break and high bandwidth.
Em
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On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Richard Stallman wrote:
>> I think RMS offered a nice idea when he was in China last May, i.e. >> make a list or table list all the so-called "Linux" distributions, >> and index the distances of them to our pure GNU/Linux by marks, >> and publish the indexing result on www.gnu.org. > >Yes, that would be a really good idea! if all of us in the mailing list like this idea, then we need to draft a set of criteria to evalute the freedom degrees of the distributions.
I've already worked out some criteria. The question is, do we have someone here who wants to look at the distributions and collect the information? If someone wants to do this, then I can show you the criteria I had in mind, and maybe others can make useful suggestions. However, if there is no one here who wants to do the work, discussing the criteria now would not lead anywhere, so we may as well do other things instead.
I see no need to even try to review 188 distributions. We should aim to review Debian, the major commercial distributions, and any noncommercial distributions that we have a reason to want to recommend. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@fsfeurope.org http://mailman.fsfeurope.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussion