[wellylug] Ruminations

[Damon Lynch]

On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 10:57, David Antliff wrote:

> 
> I can recommend Gentoo - forget these bloated not-really-free
> distributions like Mandrake

Please explain.  Mandrake never contains non-free code in any of its
main or contrib package directories, despite pressure from the
proponents of Flash and NVIDIA / ATI proprietary graphics drivers (for
instance).  Also what do you mean by "bloated"?  Is having 8,000
packages available bloated?  I think of it as convenience.

Gentoo has the same approach as LindowsOS and Xandros with respect to
Win4Lin (a non-free program), in that it includes default support for it
in its kernels: http://www.netraverse.com/kernel_policy.php.  Mandrake /
Fedora / Debian / etc. do not do this.  

Damon