Comments on: Ubuntu 7.10 lets YOU choose your level of freedom

By: dateson

dateson — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:30:01 +0000

Be informed that Adobe Flash not working on Ubuntu 64bit.

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the rasx() context » Blog Archive » Ubuntu 7.10 and VMware — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:48:47 +0000

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By: Mighty Linuxz » Ubuntu 7.10 let’s YOU choose your level of freedom

Mighty Linuxz » Ubuntu 7.10 let’s YOU choose your level of freedom — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:36:06 +0000

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By: Clair Ching

Clair Ching — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:35:35 +0000

I actually appreciate the restricted drivers manager a lot because my laptop has Broadcom for wifi. Setting it up was painful especially since I couldn’t seem to get into our office network (which uses WPA). But now, I seem to have no troubles, after installing Gutsy beta and installing the driver from the Restricted Drivers manager.

By: jonathan

jonathan — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:28:26 +0000

Adam, does Mandriva also ship with a restricted manager, and does it also give you a choice between Adobe Flash and Gnash? If it does, then kudos to Mandriva, I can’t recall ever seeing it in Mandriva though, neither in OpenSUSE (haven’t tried the enterprised SUSE yet, but I can’t imagine that it’s much different)

By: Adam Williamson

Adam Williamson — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:51:14 +0000

“I don’t think there’s any other distribution that currently makes it this easy to stick with 100% pure free software AND that makes it so easy to optionally install proprietary software.”

Hmm.

http://www.mandriva.com/en/download.html . Download Mandriva Linux 2008 Free. Install. You have a 100% pure free software distribution.

Download Mandriva Linux 2008 One. Install. You have a distro with NVIDIA and ATI proprietary drivers, Intel wireless firmware, plus less commonly used non-free drivers and firmware. Also Flash and Java.

There’s also a public non-free repository you can use to add non-free software to Free, at your discretion.

It’s worth really looking into what other distros offer before declaring Ubuntu the greatest everything. I believe it’s pretty similar on OpenSUSE 10.3 too, which is also out already.

Adam Williamson
Mandriva

By: Matthew Davidson

Matthew Davidson — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:54:23 +0000

> RMS objected to the name Gnubuntu? What on Earth for??!?

Probably because it’s not a GNU project. The same reason Microsoft wouldn’t want it called “Windobuntu”.

> He’s the man with an unreasonable obsession with getting people to call Linux GNU/Linux.

He’s not asking anybody to call Linux GNU/Linux. He’s asking people to refer to operating systems based on the GNU operating system which use Linux as the kernel as “GNU/Linux”. He’s happy for the people who produce Linux to call it whatever they want so long as people don’t confuse Linux with operating systems which _include_ Linux.

By: Daerd

Daerd — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:19:42 +0000

Here’s a comment from Mark Shuttleworth’s “Gobuntu is… go!” blog entry (found here: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/130) from a certain brian that, I think, frames FSF’s rationale on why it doesn’t approve of the Gnubuntu name: “… The FSF thought that this would cause confusion by implying that every version of GNU/Linux isn’t GNU. Since Ubuntu is already GNU they didn’t want a separate version named GNUbuntu.” Also (from here: http://www.ubuntux.org/gnubuntu-a-completely-free-ubuntu), RMS approved of the original GNUbuntu project only that he wasn’t sure if the name would live up to it’s purpose of freedom and GNU’s role in highlighting it (as outlined above).

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The Linux Index » Jonathan Carter: Got digged — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:53:07 +0000

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By: Web 2.0 Announcer

Web 2.0 Announcer — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:12:16 +0000

Ubuntu 7.10 let?s YOU choose your level of freedom…

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