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On Jan 30, 2008 10:50 AM, Jarod Wilson <[hidden email]> wrote:
> No, I've heard of Gobuntu before. But that isn't the distro du jour
> coming out of Canonical. How many people actually use it, juxtaposed to
> {Ku,U}buntu? Joe Schmoe has never heard of Gobuntu. He typically grabs
> either Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, or <insert other distro(s) here>...
Users seem to find the latter more useful -- caring nothing for software purity!
> Yes. We let users choose what packages they want at installation time.
> All the binary-only firmware bits are in one sub-group ("Hardware
> Support"), so if you uncheck that group, you get no binary-only firmware
> bits. I don't know if someone has done a Fedora spin that completely
> omits those bits or not (would be dead simple to do so), but given that
> the Fedora installer actually lets users choose what gets installed, I
> don't think its necessary to achieve the same level of purity/freeness
> as Gobuntu.
Touche! I had no idea! And knowing is half the battle... G - I ...
umm wait ... (thx for the info)
> Did I mention that I enjoy a good debate too? :D
I always see to learn something cool from you when I get fired up.
I'll plan to ruffle your feathers in the future too :-)
--
Kristian Erik Hermansen
"Know something about everything and everything about something."
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