Following FSF Philosophy?
David Symons
ubuntu at liberatedcomputing.net
Tue May 23 00:36:54 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 19:29 -0400, Andrew Zajac wrote:
>
>
> On 5/22/06, Arjun Shankar <arjunsha at gmail.com> wrote:
> But is Ubuntu "less" "free" compared to Ututo? As far as I
> know, only free software is shipped on the CD, with the non
> free stuff kept in the restricted section of the repositories.
>
>
> The install cd ships and installs some binary-only (thus non-free)
> kernel drivers. AFAIK, if you remove the linux-restricted-modules
> packages, and do not install anything from the multiverse or
> restricted repositories, you have a completely DSFG free system.
You can install and run vrms (virtual Richard M. Stallman) to check the
'purity' of your system :-) .
Cheers, Dave.
PS. It's in the universe repository.
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