Is Ubuntu going to adapt Ice Weasel?

Daniel Robitaille robitaille at ubuntu.com
Wed Oct 11 01:49:27 BST 2006


On Wed, 2006-11-10 at 01:48 +0200, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote:
> Scott Abbey:
> 
> > I, for one, use Ubuntu over another distribution (ie Fedora/Red Hat
> > or Suse) because, in it's as-shipped form, it is entirely free.
> 
> Doesn’t Ubuntu install any restricted packages
> by default, like linux-restricted-modules?

not anymore if they are not needed.  I only discovered that when I
installed Edgy Beta in my laptop.  Restricted was enabled, but no
packages were installed from it, like the restricted kernel modules, as
it was automatically done in earlier Ubuntu versions (Dapper and
before).

Daniel




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