Re: UserLinux with MySQL

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!
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>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.
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>Christoph Nelles
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>Am Samstag, 20. Dezember 2003 um 14:03 schrieben Sie:
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>SD> On Saturday 20 December 2003 18:13, Kaarel wrote:
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>>>http://userlinux.com/white_paper.html
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>>>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".
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>>>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.
>>>
>>>
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>SD> Does that mean postgresql is not included? I could not find any such thing on
>SD> userlinux.com.
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>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.
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>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.
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>SD> Let's wait and see..
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>SD> Shridhar
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>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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