Since when is Dell Gutsy Gibbon not Ubuntu?
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| However, LinDVD is not free and therefore presents a philosophical problem
| for those who would not have the name of Ubuntu sullied through association
| with a proprietary software bundle.
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| "It looks like Dell wants to create a DellOS distro based on Ubuntu with
| various of proprietary things in the mix (ala Linspire) to help sell their
| computers. There’s nothing stopping them from doing that, but is it really
| fair for Dell to be calling this “Ubuntu” though?"
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15871/1023/
Related:
Dell announces Ubuntu 7.10 PCs with DVD playback
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| It has long been possible to play DVDs on Linux. However, with most Linux
| distributions, it is necessary to manually enable this functionality. That is
| because while the user may legally own both the DVD he or she is trying to
| play and the computer it's being played on, in the United States, enabling
| open-source-based operating systems to play commercial DVDs, with their wide
| variety of DRM (digital rights management) schemes, is something of a legal
| swamp. There are legal ways around this, and presumably Dell has invested in
| one of them.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7924076658.html
Dell pushes for better Linux drivers
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| Amit Bhutani told a session at the Ubuntu Live 2007 conference that Dell has
| several "areas of investigation" when it comes to Linux.
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http://www.crn.com.au/story.aspx?CIID=87745&src=site-marq
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