Hello Myriam and team this is valuable information, thanks. I share with you the position regarding free and non-free components and I'm pretty sure you will agree with the selection (as I closely work with Theo Schmidt on this).
Interesting to read your comments about L. I have contacted them to discuss the the status and I hope the talks will bring clarification about how to proceed (together) in the Ubuntu ecosystem. Best regards, Dani *** Myriam Schweingruber schrieb: > Hi all, > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 10:15, Daniel Stoni <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello Ubuntu Swiss Team - below some updates regarding our DVD: >> >> PPA: discussions reveal that using the swiss team ppa is not the best >> idea from a security perspective - due its openness. Replacement is >> under way. >> >> LinuxDay Geneva: Talking with Linalis people and visiting their webpage >> I've learned about SwissOS: http://www.swissos.ch >> >> SwissOS is a Remix based on Ubuntu 8.10 developed by Linalis with some >> local customizations and some nice graphics for usplash, gdm and gnome. >> They are using some own meta debs on http://www.swissos.ch/main. SwissOS >> has some preseeding, too (default settings for gfxboot, timezone, >> language, keyboard). >> I'm interested in joining efforts, but we have to sort out some points first >> - Naming: SwissOS - vs. Ubuntu SwissRemix. There are good reasons for >> either approach >> - SwissOS includes free and non-free software. This is conflicting with >> the current SwissRemix approach which tries to be 'clean' from a legal >> perspective. > > *arghs* NO, no way, we will not ship proprietary software, it is > simply not compatible with the spirit of free software. > > On another note, I am not keen to team up with a firm that has > repeatedly bashed the Linux community in the Suisse romande, read the > GULL mailing list archives about that. > > On another note, Linalis seems to be on extremely good terms with > Microsoft, and this is again a no go for me. Let Linalis do their > stuff, they never asked or offered any help without trying to control > everything. They are and have been violating the Ubuntu spirit in > several ways so no again, I will not support to work on anything > involving Linalis unless they change their policy. > > And No Proprietary Software on the Swiss Remix, please, else I will > refuse to distribute it and ask other people not to do neither... > >> Action: The free packages used will be added to SwissRemix, too. >> Reference to non-free Software installation is being added to the >> postinstall documentation. >> >> I still collect votes and ideas for default SwissRemix packaging. Should >> the kernel sources be in the remix? Wine is not in - any objections? > > Nah, again, this is stuff that people who really need it can install > after by their own means, especially kernel sources is totally useless > to the average users and takes up a lot of space that could be used > better. > > I repeat the warning about the proprietary drivers from AMD-ATI: their > latest version is *not* compatible with almost all graphic cards older > than 6 months. They sacked almost all the driver guys for economical > reasons and of course have not enough staff anymore to support their > own cards... This warning should be printed in big letters somewhere > and people should be asked to get in touch with the Ubuntu community > through mail, forum or IRC to get this sported out before > installation. > > > Regards, Myriam. >
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