[HLUG] Interesting item on main BBC Technology section.

[dicegeorge at hotmail dot com]

ubuntu is for first timers,
'ubuntu for virgins'
can i copyright that?
then once we've lured them away from uncle bill and uncle mac
you can offer them the hard stuff!



                   [george]

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From: "Paul Stenning" <paul at vintage-radio.com>
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 10:51 PM
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [HLUG] Interesting item on main BBC Technology section.

> 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
>>
>>
>>                   [george]
>>
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>> ~        george at dicenews.com      ~
>> ~               07970 378 572            ~
>> ~         www.dicegeorge.com        ~
>> ~                     (c)2008                  ~
>> ~                                                   ~
>>
>>
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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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>>>> ~        george at dicenews.com      ~
>>>> ~               07970 378 572            ~
>>>> ~         www.dicegeorge.com        ~
>>>> ~                     (c)2008                  ~
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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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