[Kubuntu] About Kde Integration

[Matthew Flaschen]

Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On 2/24/07, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
>> I'm actually using gnewsense-kde (http://www.gnewsense.org/), which is
>> Ubuntu without unfree software, for similar reasons.
> 
> I never understood this distribution.  Don't you get the same thing by
> removing linux-restricted-modules-*?

No, the linux kernel itself has unfree software, and there's a bit of
unfree software in the universe repository.  See
http://www.gnewsense.org/Main/Features,
http://www.gnewsense.org/Universe/Universe , and
http://www.gnewsense.org/FAQ/FAQ .

  Then just disable the restricted
> repository.  I suppose I can see someone's motivation for *using* it,
> but I can't understand putting so much work into making a derivative
> distribution just to remove 2 packages and disable one repository.

It's more work than that.  They actually had to dig through the kernel
sources (partially automatically) and decided to rebrand Firefox (to
avoid Mozilla trademark rules).  Also, Ubuntu is trending towards *more*
proprietary software by adding Click & Run (which distinguishes itself
from other repositories mainly through distributing proprietary
software) and in the future possibly more proprietary video drivers.

Matthew Flaschen

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