Is there any non free thing in Ubuntu Kernel

subhajit bandyopadhyay subhajit.cool108 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 6 16:24:29 UTC 2012


I'm optimist. I think one day we'll get Ubuntu without any non free
software.

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Md Ashickur Rahman Noor <
ashickur.noor at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for every bodies reply. I just want to know that is Ubuntu ship
> with non free? The answer is yes.
>
> We can not go with out non-free software, we have to understand that.
> Gobuntu is a backdated distro which is not maintain now. So there is no
> option to use it.
>
> So I think I we can have Ubuntu fork which has no non-free in shipment.
> But it is not possible. :D
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> On 6 February 2012 21:42, Ioannis Vranos <ioannis.vranos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Tim Edwards <liststuff at fastmail.com.au>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012, at 08:42 AM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>> >> On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:12:00 +0000
>> >> Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> [...]
>> >>
>> >> > >
>> >> > Having never come across a modern general purpose computer that can
>> >> > be run with 100% free software the whole thing is a mute point
>> anyway.
>> >> >
>> >> Not so!
>> >>
>> >> Run the package, "vrms," on your box and see how close you are to
>> >> completely free and what to dump to be completely free.
>> >>
>> >> Mine, for instance, has flashplugin-nonfree and the nVidia driver, both
>> >> of which it (and I) could do without.
>> >
>> > Great package name "virtual Richard M. Stallman" but I don't think it's
>> > that accurate. For example it didn't pick-up packages I've installed
>> > from the partner repo - skype and adobe-flashplugin.
>> >
>> > Either way I couldn't do without these packages and although I could do
>> > without the others (MS TTF fonts, Virtualbox guest additions, rar/unrar,
>> > AAC audio encoding) I'd really rather not. Not to mention that not
>> > having the wifi firmware on my other computer (a laptop) would be an
>> > instant deal-breaker.
>>
>> I think we will get only free software eventually.
>>
>>
>> http://cppsoftware.binhoster.com/documents/why_there_isn%27t%20going_to_be_the_year_of_linux.html
>>
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