Ubuntu is not free.

[Andrew Zajac]

On 7/13/06, Steve Kratz <stevek at cipafilter.com> wrote:
> But... If you strip out the things that make Ubuntu nice for "anyone" to
> use, you end up with a plain old kernel, where someone installs the
> disk, has 800x600 VESA graphics, no sound card support, no wireless at
> all, a web browser that can't access half of the web sites out there
> because of flash/java, and the user then says "This sucks" and
> re-installs Windows.
>
That's crack.

AFAIK, the free-libre ATI and Nvidia drivers will reliably give you
excellent 2D performance.  It's when you fail to install the
proprietary drivers that you get dropped to 800x600.

Most sound cards work out-of-the-box.  I am unaware of any proprietary
sound drivers for linux.  Maybe there are, but to say there is no
sound support for linux is untrue.

Many wireless cards have native linux support.  I guess about half the
time, it just works, out-of-the-box?

Suns' java is in the repositories and they (Sun) have said that they
plan to open source Java.



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