A review showing that out-of-the-box capabilities of the recently released Elive 1.0. Elive has been touted as one of the prettiest distributions available, but how does it stack up?
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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Starchild
4 years 44 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago
Elive is not free software.
Elive is not free software.
spikeb
4 years 44 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago
how so?
how so?
antiprophet
4 years 44 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago
It is unfortunate that the creator
It is unfortunate that the creator of the distribution does require a donation for download. That being said, you can find mirrors where you can download it for free.
spikeb
4 years 44 weeks 2 days 15 hours ago
requiring payment doesn't make
requiring payment doesn't make something non-free
Starchild
4 years 44 weeks 2 days 7 hours ago
Please take a look at the license:
Please take a look at the license:
http://www.elivecd.org/gb/Help/License/
Using Elive for commercial purposes is forbidden. That makes it non-free software. I believe it would also fail to pass the open source definition as it forbids free redistribution (Criteria 1) and discriminates between fields of endeavor (Criteria 6).