Ubuntu Hardy Heron: Beyond the Hype and into the Dilemma
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| The main place where innovation is happening rapidly seems to be in Ubuntu's
| efforts to balance the concept of free software with the drive toward
| commercialism by Canonical, Ubuntu's face in business. Both Ubuntu's
| continued good will among free software projects and Canonical's business
| model depends on the distribution being relatively faithful to community
| standards -- which, in practice, means tolerating proprietary software in the
| distribution as little as possible. Yet, at the same time, users want the 3-D
| drivers needed for games and compositing window managers, to say nothing of
| their Flash and multimedia codecs. Refuse to ship them, and the only result
| is the rise of unofficial repositories, which are not only out of the
| distro's control but often compound compatibility problems for users.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3744341
Will OpenSolaris bring a chill to Sun-Ubuntu romance?
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| Sun and Ubuntu have a history of cooperation that dates back to 2006, when
| Ubuntu announced that its 6.06 Long Term Release version of Ubuntu would
| support Sun’s “Cool Threads” technology and exploit several Sun Sparc-based
| servers as part of Sun’s OpenSparc Initiative.
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| And, at the launch of Ubuntu 7.07 last year, Canonical announced that it
| would support a full Java stack including Glassfish version 1.0 Java,
| Enterprise Edition 5, Java Platform, Standard Edition (JDK 6), Java DB 10.2
| (based on Apache Derby) and Netbeans IDE 5.5.
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| And Ubuntu’s support for Sun’s openJDK — and Sun’s embracing of Ubuntu server
| — suggests that the two intend to carry the partnership forward.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2377
Recent:
Rethinking Gobuntu
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| If that is the case, then I think it would be better
| to channel the energy from Gobuntu into gNewSense.
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https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gobuntu-devel/2008-April/000650.html
Related:
The Importance of the 'Completely Libre' Distributions
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| What's more, I recently migrated a local user to gNewSense from
| his improperly-licensed, virus-ridden Windows XP system. I am due to follow
| up with him soon, so we'll see how his GNU/Linux eXPerience is going.
| Frankly, I'm pretty sure he'll agree that gNewSense is a great demonstration
| of the power of software freedom.
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http://blue-gnu.biz/content/importance_039_completely_libre_039_distributions
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