SuSe Source?

[Juan Pablo]

An OS totally opensource is Gnewview, is a linux distro thus it uses the linux kernel

[fingal]

The kernel has a site all of its own.

[safwan]

is fedora opensource?
if so can the source be found at the svn?
i could'nt find it

[bryansmith]

Yes, Fedora, like every other linux distro, is open source. They are all the same in the fact that they are divided up into packages. There is a package for the linux kernel and then packages for everything else. So, you can look at the source of each individual package - there is no one piece of source code.

Bryan

[jonantice]

It is my understanding that the only code added to an OS by the OS developers are the scripts (boot, network, etc.) and maybe not even that. The people that put the OS together don't actually write any of the programs, those are already done, they mostly do just configuration. (there may be exceptions.)

[fingal]

It is my understanding that the only code added to an OS by the OS developers are the scripts (boot, network, etc.) and maybe not even that. The people that put the OS together don't actually write any of the programs, those are already done, they mostly do just configuration. (there may be exceptions.)

Ooooo they add quite a few things in some cases. Think of SuSE's YAST and Mandriva's Control Centre and Disk Drake.

Some hard boiled geeks won't touch Mandriva because of the extra kernel modules they add. My awareness of those isn't very high. I just use the thing and let other people moan about that.

[safwan]

well you are right
i finished my own os in 2 days
now i am trying to create an installer and then i'll release it to public

[burntfuse]

It is my understanding that the only code added to an OS by the OS developers are the scripts (boot, network, etc.) and maybe not even that. The people that put the OS together don't actually write any of the programs, those are already done, they mostly do just configuration. (there may be exceptions.)

Depends - they've also got to write an installer and make a live system to run the installer (quite a task!), and a lot of the time they'll add some custom utilities (for example, GNOME doesn't come with network management AFAIK - each distro adds its own custom tool for that, since the base system is different) and sometimes they'll write their own programs to include with it (Red Hat especially).