Science-fiction ;-)

[Gnu/Linux Technology]

Some crazy suggestions in absolut...based of what I do after an 
installation of Ububtu.

1) Remove Evolution replaced by Thunderbird
2) Remove Totem replaced by VLC
3) Add xmms + Streamtuner + Streamripper, Beagle.
4) Add all non free stuff  : java, flash, w32codec, libdvdcss, xnview, 
frostwire, aMule, Skype, Google Earth
   => I could see during install party that it is the more diificult 
part to explain why this stuff is not inside Ubuntu according to GPL. 
Newbies don't understand why the distro is not functionnal out of the 
box (like it was in 2004 releases of Simply MEPIS).

Could there be a walk around to easily offer this option? Perhaps by 
enabling non-free repos in Synaptic?

Some distros like Open SuSe have a licence validation before installing 
to enable java and flash, what do you think about this way?

This choices are more political than technical, but we have to talk 
about to find how to allows more and more users to migrate to open-systems.