[HLUG] Interesting item on main BBC Technology section.

[Paul Stenning]

The article is about FREEDOM, so the BBC or whoever suggesting one, and 
only one, Linux distro as being the right one for all newbies goes 
against that ideal.

dicegeorge at hotmail dot com wrote:
> 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]
>>>
>>> ~                      [g]                         ~
>>> ~        george at dicenews.com      ~
>>> ~               07970 378 572            ~
>>> ~         www.dicegeorge.com        ~
>>> ~                     (c)2008                  ~
>>> ~                                                   ~
>>>
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> 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]
>>>>>
>>>>> ~                      [g]                         ~
>>>>> ~        george at dicenews.com      ~
>>>>> ~               07970 378 572            ~
>>>>> ~         www.dicegeorge.com        ~
>>>>> ~                     (c)2008                  ~
>>>>> ~                                                   ~
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>>> 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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