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Comment Installing Ubuntu isn't the hard part (Score 1, Insightful) 727

by rhoderickj on Thursday May 21, 2009 @12:49PM (#28041531) Attached to: Ubuntu 9.04 For the Windows Power User

They are going to have a much more difficult time trying to install Microsoft Office, Photoshop, iTunes, streaming Netflix, and playing games. But there's always Compiz for some fancy distraction: if you squint, you can almost pretend that you're watching a Blu-Ray!

Proprietary Blobs and the Pursuit of a Free Kernel 405

Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 28, 2008 @10:09PM from the free-as-in-beerspeech dept.

jammag writes "Ever since the GNewSense team pointed out that the Linux kernel contains proprietary firmware blobs, the question of whether a given distro is truly free software has gotten messier, notes Linux pundit Bruce Byfield. The FSF changed the definition of a free distribution, and a search for how to respond to this new definition is now well underway. Who wins and what solutions are implemented could have a major effect on the future of free and open source software. Debian has its own solution (by allowing users to choose their download), as do Ubuntu and Fedora (they include the offending firmware by default but make it possible to remove it). Meanwhile, the debate over firmware rages on. What resolves this issue?"

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