've been an Ubuntu fan for some time now. No matter which distro I tried, I always found it lacked some feature or another and I eventually made my way back to Ubuntu. Then I found Mint.
Full story »'ve been an Ubuntu fan for some time now. No matter which distro I tried, I always found it lacked some feature or another and I eventually made my way back to Ubuntu. Then I found Mint.
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stargrave
14 years 37 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago
Non-free software included
4.) Media Codecs, Flash, and Java by Default - This has to be one of my favorite things about Mint.
No, thanks. We are free software lovers. Software that brings freedom. Mint by default supports freedom-destroying (read -- non-free) software. Downvoted because of that.
Mr. Psychopath
14 years 35 weeks 4 days 20 hours ago
Technically...
If you live in Europe or any country that doesn't deal with the ridiculous DMCA, most media codecs using Gstreamer and Xine do count as Free Software. It's only really in the US that we have to worry about it.
Par one for the course though. Living in the US kind of sucks sometimes.
stargrave
14 years 35 weeks 4 days 20 hours ago
Re: Technically...
If you live in Europe, then it is free software. If you live in USA -- not. I think and I am sure most will be together with me, that free software should be free everywhere in the world.
The freedom to run the program means the freedom for any kind of person or organization to use it on any kind of computer system, for any kind of overall job and purpose, without being required to communicate about it with the developer or any other specific entity. -- taken from ``The Free Software definition'' on GNU.org.
USA laws like DMCA, or those that restricts exporting of ``intellectual property'' outside USA to some countries are not acceptable. We should neither support them nor close our eyes on them. By ``we'' I mean hacker community all over the world.
Mr. Psychopath
14 years 35 weeks 4 days 20 hours ago
The fault then lies in the DMCA.
'Nuff said.