> Hi > > I just don't get it - Why are people displeased with the fact that some > drivers in Ubuntu are closed-source? In my oppinion we should be happy > that those drivers are supplied to us in the first place. And the latest > development with Dell's anouncement drivers will be easier to write in > the future - Our pride as Linux-geeks is that our system runs on even > very old computers - I've installed Ubuntu 7.04 on my daughters very old > Pentium II 266, 192 MB RAM, G-Force 2 MX400 32 MB graphice and a 10 GB > harddrive, PCI sound card and 10/100 network. Well it's slow, but it > runs - You'd never be able to find peace running WinXP on that computer, > but Ubuntu runs nice and at a speed she can live with. > > She choose Ubuntu Linux over Vista, that's the importend thing, isn't > it? And her choise gave life back to an old computer that otherwise > would have been sent to the bin. > > Jimmy > > > > man, 07 05 2007 kl. 23:55 -0400, skrev Matthew Flaschen: >> Michael D. Stemle, Jr. wrote: >> >> > As much as folks >> > hate on Ubuntu, these drivers are still in repositories and not on >> default >> > install discs. >> >> Actually, Ubuntu does include some proprietary drivers on the install >> disk. >> >> Matt Flaschen >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Advocate mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://badvista.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/advocate > > > _______________________________________________ > Advocate mailing list > [email protected] > http://badvista.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/advocate >
1. Well, no one say one cannot use Ubuntu. Using Ubuntu instead of Vista, grant one more freedom. But the similarity is that both OS contain the pieces of binaries that limit freedom, be it user or developer. As software freedom avocates, our community cannot recommend it directly. 2. Can I request it to be called GNU/Linux? Make it a habit. All Linux machines are useless if GNU is absent. --- Lam YongXian Adolflam.com FSF member #5279 _______________________________________________ Advocate mailing list [email protected] http://badvista.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/advocate
