[Kde-perl] world's first operating system with Perl Qt as a core component

[troy at troywill.com]

I've been planning to make a grand announcement about the operating system 
I've developed which uses Perl Qt. I haven't done that but rather will make 
this  announcement with a whimper, not a bang.

First, the most important thing: my operating system is Free Software, in the 
ethical sense. To be explicit, I won't be giving the operating system away 
for free myself, but anyone who buys it from me will have the freedoms 
guaranteed by the GPL to modify and redistribute the operating system without 
limit, for whatever price, including free. Futhermore, I will explicitly 
state that full source code is distributed with the OS, and is covered by 
free software licenses.

Now for some of the main technical details:

1. Perl Qt is an essential component. It's used both as a front end to the 
system administration programs, and as a primary application language.
2. Perl, MySQL (and Perl DBI), and KDE are all essential components.
3. The URI for the operating system is http://grantlinux.com

The operating system's full and official name is Grant GNU/Linux. I will not 
object if people use the shorter version of "Grant Linux."

I have based Grant GNU/Linux on Mandrake Linux 9.2, but this will change as 
time goes by, probably to Debian, due to Debian's clear support of Free 
Software. I will be contacting Mandrake's engineers privately to offer them 
help ingratiating my changes back into Mandrake's software, out of a sense of 
ethical obligation to give back to the Free Software Community.

Troy Will
February 28, 2004