[HLUG] Interesting item on main BBC Technology section.

[dicegeorge at hotmail dot com]

organising anarchists is like herding cats

                   [george]


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From: "Paul Stenning" <paul at vintage-radio.com>
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 11:09 PM
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [HLUG] Interesting item on main BBC Technology section.

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