"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb_at_it.uc3m.es> ,in message <199901192104.WAA01661_at_oboe.it.u
	c3m.es>, wrote: 

> I don't run it on any other platform but my own - this seems to reflect
> a basic miscomprehension about the way linux works. There aren't "official"
> distributions.

  Yes there are.  RedHat 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 are all official
distributions.  There are also distributions of Slackware, Debian, and SuSE.

> Some machines were slackware 2.1 many years ago, and the distribution got
> ported from one machine to another, with parts added in from slackware
> 3.0-3.4 in particular, and everything works.

  You said `There aren't "official" distributions.' when you should have said
`There are distributions which aren't official'.

-- 
Bob Forsman                                   thoth_at_gainesville.fl.us
           http://www.gainesville.fl.us/~thoth/