Re: UserLinux with MySQL

Here is an article from Bruce Perens that lays out the decision to go with
Gnome, and in passing explains the rational for going with PostgreSQL.  It's
dated December 15th....

http://www.newsforge.com/software/03/12/16/0029234.shtml?tid=130&tid=150&tid=2&tid=82&tid=94



Robert Treat

On Saturday 20 December 2003 08:50, Ewald Geschwinde wrote:
> Yes thats right.
> I can confirm this to 100%
>
> look at this page
> http://www.comptonranch.com/userlinux.html
> this is the unofficial working document
>
> regards EWald
>
> Evil Azrael wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >Yesterday i read in this german article (
> >http://www.golem.de/showhigh.php?file=/0312/28977.html&wort[]=userlinux )
> > that they had already decided for postgresql. I don´t know where they´ve
> > got this information, but Golem is in my eyes a reliable Source.
> >
> >
> >
> >Christoph Nelles
> >
> >
> >Am Samstag, 20. Dezember 2003 um 14:03 schrieben Sie:
> >
> >SD> On Saturday 20 December 2003 18:13, Kaarel wrote:
> >>>http://userlinux.com/white_paper.html
> >>>
> >>>Check this out. They chose GNOME instead of KDE because Qt requires a
> >>>proprietary license for commercial apps while GTK+ is fully GNU. As they
> >>>put it the licensing "is the sole reason for this decision".
> >>>
> >>>But when it comes to databases they've chosen "MySQL with non-GPL
> >>>libraries". How's this different from Qt vs GTK+?
> >>>
> >>>However he does say he is "not a database pro, and will listen to
> >>>argument about the merits of other database servers". So perhaps
> >>>PostgreSQL advocacy team has something to say here.
> >
> >SD> Does that mean postgresql is not included? I could not find any such
> > thing on SD> userlinux.com.
> >
> >SD> Most distributions ship both of them. Slackware is one exception I
> > know that SD> does not ship postgresql by default. But then most slack
> > users know how to SD> get it on their system, I believe.
> >
> >SD> I think it is rather stretched to drag postgresql v/s mysql in GNOME
> > v/s KDE. SD> Most probably userlinux will ship with psotgresql and mysql.
> >
> >SD> Let's wait and see..
> >
> >SD>  Shridhar
> >
> >SD> P.S. After all said and done, it is just another linux distribution.
> > How far SD> it goes remains to be seen. Personally I think this war of
> > getting included SD> into it(for GNOME/KDE) is rather overhyped, despite
> > of high value names SD> associated with it. Let it prove itself and users
> > will funnel it down the way SD> they want.
> >
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