Last edited by Sunnz; October 15th, 2007 at 07:16 PM.
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Yes, I understand that. What I don't understand is why you believe that Dell is in a position to "demand" that nvidia do anything more than provide working drivers for its products? What is in this for Dell? What's in it for nvidia? Why would either of those parties be the least bit interested in a business deal which would benefit neither of them?
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Have you ever used an totally free operating system? I'm talking about free as in freedom and not as in free beer. I would say that 90% of what you can do in a loaded down non-free os can be done in a free os. Restricted drivers are just what they say they are. RESTRICTED. Its really a sad state of affairs. I myself use restricted drivers. I'm gonna try to see what can do with a totally free system, without all the bloat added. A person doesn't have to give up their non-free distro, just try a totally free distro also. I bet you can do anything you need to do.
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I don't think some here get the point:
Sunnz is talking about having Dell support Gobuntu by selling hardware that is completely compatible with a 100 percent free OS. Meaning it can run Gobuntu (or gNewSense, etc.).
This doesn't mean you can't run proprietary drivers and codecs. And it doesn't mean you can't run vanilla Ubuntu. Hell, you could run Windows for all it matters. Hardware that is fully compatible with libre/free software is fully compatible with the closed/proprietary software, but it doesn't work the other way around.
It's a matter of Dell building their desktops with free-compatible hardware. Why would anyone here, using Ubuntu, have a problem with that? I mean, you don't have to be a purist to respect at least the principles behind that.
I'm surprised some people here are so hostile to the "purists". It's like a vegetarian refusing to eat vegan food, it makes absolutely no sense, and it's hypocritical in a bizarre way.
I don't think anyone is saying replace Ubuntu with Gobuntu, simply make the hardware fully compatible.
Thanks keyboardashtray for helping explaining the idea.
Might I add to the point of that the idea is not to request Gobuntu to replace Ubuntu, but simply support Gobuntu - as long as Gobuntu works then Ubuntu automatically works as well, there are not extra work to make Ubuntu to work.
Dell can offer both choices when you customise a computer... as far as I know of, even for WinPC, you have a choice between XP and Vista anyway, so asking the choice of Gobuntu and Ubuntu isn't an unreasonable request.
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I completely agree. Thats the beauty of a true 100% Free Software supporting hardware.
If it can work with Gobuntu, it can work with any other OS, free or non-free.
Very soon there will be at least 1 of each peice of hardware that has an OSS driver.
Intel - Network, Audio, Graphics, etc.
RaLink - Network: Wifi, Ground
ATi - High Quality Graphics
I'm not an OSS purist at all, i just want my computer to do what i want it to, Linux does that.
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