YDL - Builds for Red Hat?

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Rodney:

Some clarifications are necessary. 

Companies, such as Omnipilot Software who own Lasso, maintain complete 
control of their products; they determine:

1.  How an evaluation copy of the commercial product which terminates 
within a defined period of time, may be acquired.

2.  How this commercial product is available for purchase.

More details from that company, which you may already be familiar with, 
regarding Lasso are available here:

http://www.omnipilot.com/FAQs.1756.lasso

Currently it appears that they don't allow Lasso to exist as a General 
Public License (GPL) product nor do they appear to have a similar 
license approaching the GPL in some way.

An organization called Open Source Initiative (OSI) exists as a means 
for individuals (and companies) to review what is defined under the GPL 
or under other licenses which approach the GPL in some manner.

It should be understood that there are no obligations that any company 
or individual must support or participate in open source efforts as 
defined within the GPL.  Some companies, like Apple (as well as IBM and 
others), participate within the open source effort within a license 
which allows and supports their views and protects their unique 
interests and products -- these unique licenses explain these different 
approaches to how these companies contribute and participate within the 
open source framework or concept.  Also these various licenses allow a 
distinction regarding what products or portions of their products are 
considered as open source and which portions of the same are commercial 
or proprietary.

You can learn more of these licenses from here:

http://www.opensource.org/

How the above affects you:
As you are moving to YDL you will have to use open source programs which 
can either be compiled for use within YDL or are already compiled for 
use within YDL.  Essentially this means that you or someone will have to 
carefully research what open source, read GPL, product exists which can 
replace Lasso and other products like Lasso which you have been 
accustomed to.

There is another distinction you may find helpful.  YDL runs on PowerPC 
processors only.  Red Hat produces Linux which runs only on Intel and 
compatible processors.
YDL can run a great deal of what has been written for Red Hat -- unless 
that open source program has been designed to be run exclusively on 
Intel and compatible processors.

Although it is possible to independently research and determine what 
open source packages and applications you may need to replace 
proprietary applications such as Lasso; it may be faster to review the 
3rd Party applications determined as functioning with YDL.  That listing 
is available here:

http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/ydl/3rd_party/

Each category reveals another listing below it.  This should help your 
efforts to replace commercial software with open source applications.

Good Luck....
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Rodney Poplin wrote:
> This may be a lame question but I am trying to port over my OS X  
> server to YDL and programs I use and reply on like Lasso have Red Hat  
> builds. Will these builds work on YDL?
> I have found most of the programs I need to port have Red Hat builds.  
> Please give me info on yes or maybe or ......
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> Thank you,
> Rodney Poplin
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