Microsoft, Novell, and now Ubuntu join to boost Apple and Debian
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| I have happily used SUSE Linux in the past and currently run Ubuntu.
| I like Ubuntu, even though my friend Logan says that Ubuntu "is a
| Swahili word that means 'Too stupid to configure Debian.'"
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| Ubuntu does everything I expect from a Linux distro, and is automatic
| (or automatix) enough that I spend hardly any time worrying about it.
| I turn on my Ubuntu computer -- a ThinkPad T43 - and "it just works."
| I am personally OK with the proprietary (mostly graphics) drivers
| included with the basic Ubuntu distribution, but I also realize that
| some people are not OK with them, and I believe those people should
| not be frozen out of a particular distro because of their software
| licensing preferences.
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http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/27/1633208
Binary drivers in Ubuntu, however few, have become a deterrent to many. You
can't be just a little proprietary just as you can't be "a little pregnant".
They hinder Open Source driver initiatives...
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