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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