Talk:Red Hat Linux
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needs details on enterprise linux and the fedora project and rpm repositories like freshrpms and the use of apt-rpm
- I added some information about Fedora. Nixdorf
MP3 support is disabled in both Rhythmbox and XMMS /
So how to install it afterwards? Thanks --ThomasK 17:00, Jan 4, 2005 (UTC)
- Search for the RPM: XMMS-MP3.rpm and install that. http://xmms.org should also have instructions you can use --Will2k 18:18, Jan 4, 2005 (UTC)
I'm wondering how this can be distrbuted 'for money' if Linux is licensed under the GPL... GPL is contagious isn't it? --67.172.99.160 01:16, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
- The GPL allows you to sell software for as much as you want. It's just that the GPL also allows the licensees of the software to reproduce and redistribute the software without limitation, so even if the software costs $1000 from the original developers, one person could buy that, make a thousand copies and sell them each for $5 each if they wanted to. GPL is only contagious in some instances, i.e. where a piece of software absolutely relies on a piece of GPL software, i.e. like how a compiled program may rely on a software library. Otherwise, it is alright to package non-GPL software with GPL software in a GNU/Linux distribution, because that is called "mere aggregation" - merely being distributed together with GPL software doesn't mean it has to have the same license. Also, plenty of essential libraries in GNU/Linux systems use the LGPL which means that software that links to it does not need to be GPL, but direct modifications of the library itself must be GPL. --Jameshales 09:18, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Should there be something about RHL's funny trademark license? I've seen that many Linux vendors now call RHL by a different name, i.e. www.lankum.com calls it by You-Know-Who and www.linuxcd.org calls it by Blue Jacket. --Jameshales 09:18, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
- I have inserted a paragraph or two about this subject; I'm not crystal-clear on the trademark policy involved, so if someone else knows better it would be good to have my description of the issue improved or replaced. --Jameshales 05:47, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Carmen Sandiego
Should we mention the mascot is Carmen Sandiego? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bluefoxicy (talk • contribs) 23:46, 29 January 2006 (EDT).
[edit] Screenshot
I find it bizzare that a picture for the english Wikipedia version of Red Hat Linux is in another language?!?!? Shouldn't it be in english, to make it look the part in the article? --Wakimakirolls 15:18, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Gnome???
The text under the screenshot states that the DE for that screenshot is KDE, but it is clearly KDE. Changed it --Gabrieldain 15:16, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
