[HLUG] Interesting item on main BBC Technology section.

[Paul Stenning]

A link to somewhere like distrowatch would be more sensible, rather than 
linking to one specific distro.

There is more to Linux than Ubuntu! ;)


dicegeorge at hotmail dot com wrote:
> ahja
> so the bbc should have a link to ubuntu etc
> from their page,
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7487060.stm
> 
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> From: "Paul Stenning" <paul at vintage-radio.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 10:37 PM
> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [HLUG] Interesting item on main BBC Technology section.
> 
>> There is no mention of Fedora, SUSE, Debian or many other popular 
>> distros either.
>>
>> It says: "These are the GNU/Linux distributions we know of which only 
>> include and only propose free software. They reject non-free 
>> applications, non-free programming platforms, non-free drivers, or 
>> non-free firmware “blobs”."
>>
>> It also says: "We do not have links to web sites of the well-known 
>> GNU/Linux system distributions, or to the well-known BSD system 
>> distributions, because all those sites explicitly describe, and 
>> facilitate access to, various non-free programs."
>>
>> So it is obvious why Ubuntu and the other popular distros aren't 
>> included.
>>
>>
>> dicegeorge at hotmail dot com wrote:
>>> i clicked something there and got to
>>> http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions
>>> where i found no mention of ubunut
>>> which is the most populist unix distribution
>>> why?
>>> is there some linux ego war going on between www.gnu.org/ and ubuntu.org
>>> ??
>>>
>>> why dont they sort it out!
>>>
>>>                   [george]
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>>>
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>>> From: "Julian Robbins" <joolsr at fastmail.fm>
>>> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 9:52 PM
>>> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." 
>>> <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>>> Subject: [HLUG] Interesting item on main BBC Technology section.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> Been it a bit quiet recently, so thought I would post this.
>>>>
>>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7487060.stm
>>>>
>>>> This link is from the main BBC Technology section, ie
>>>>
>>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/default.stm
>>>>
>>>> I found myself reading it with interest, before discovering that it 
>>>> was written by Richard Stallman, a huge OSS advocate since the 70's.
>>>>
>>>> Well worth a read his item on Bill Gates ...
>>>>
>>>> Julian
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