Re: [ossig] Malaysia own Distro Company

["Ahmad Arafat Abdullah" <arafat@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wow sounds interesting..
well hope it'll became portable for both platforms.. BSD/Linux.. previously 
what i've been used is Slackware.. and BSD's.. 

hope PH will be better product to try :)

p/s: Chris, i've heard someone stealin' yer pen during Stallman's talk? :)

  

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:36:10 +0800, Christopher DeMarco wrote
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:37:36PM +0800, Ahmad Arafat Abdullah wrote:
> 
> > Dinesh, izzit a new BSD fork? or just a joke ? :)
> 
> It's very real,  Dinesh and I were   talking about it just 
>  yesterday. I've not  tried it out  myself  but supposedly it's  a 
> nice  BSD/Linux hybrid (you've heard of GNU/Linux, right?)  All of 
> the much-lauded BSD engineering (argument   standardization,     
>  mandatory documentation) happens pretty  much in userspace, so PH 
>  is integrating the Linux 2.7 devel  series kernels into a "best  of 
> both worlds" OS.  What's really interesting  is that,  unlike  
> GNU/Linux  which  can't technically  be called just   "Linux"  
>  because  it  uses copywritten   GNU  software, PurpleHat *can*, 
>  thanks to the  liberal  BSD license,  be called just "Linux".  It's 
>   a great step   forward  in the  drive  for enterprise acceptance 
> of OSS, because the  political talk  doesn't have to  cloud the good 
> business sense.
> 
> I'd  refer  you  to the  PH  website,  but  it's currently  down   
> for maintenance; google for it and you should find some stuff.
> 
> -- 
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