What others say about ubuntu?

[BrokeBody]

Do you have some links where I can read what people such as Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, Steve Ballmer, ... and others think of Ubuntu?

[meng]

Oh Steve Ballmer loves it.

[BrokeBody]

I know he does. :mrgreen:

I just wanna read anything about it. :-k :-|

[darkhatter]

Stallman doesn't like it

[meng]

Stallman likes gnewsense I think, which is Ubuntu stripped of all the non-free stuff.

[dbbolton]

google ...

[steven8]

Ballmer triple boots, Ubuntu, Linux XP, and Mac OSX. :-)

[BarfBag]

I'm curious about this too. I've Googled around and can't find anything.

[IYY]

Stallman never mentions any specific distributions. He does say that a distribution must be 100% Free, which Ubuntu isn't, so he's not too happy about it. However, Ubuntu is more Free than most other distributions.

I doubt Ballmer even knows about Ubuntu.

[BrokeBody]

This year, Stallman was in my country, Serbia. He said that he liked Debian once, but not anymore. He said that Linux distro he is using is called Ututo (https://www.ututo.org/www/), like, it's the only 100% free Linux distribution now. :rolleyes:

[DoctorMO]

*shrug* the guy will do what the guy wants to do, I don't blame him for sticking to his guns. he normally turns out to be right.

[Dainn]

Just wanted to step in, because I found something said on the thread curious. I thought Ubuntu was free, what about it isn't free? I'm new, so bear with me, this was just kind of confusing.
Thanks

[mushroom]

it's the only 100% free Linux distribution now.

Along with BLAG (http://blagblagblag.org) and, of course, gNewSense (http://gnewsense.org).



Just wanted to step in, because I found something said on the thread curious. I thought Ubuntu was free, what about it isn't free? I'm new, so bear with me, this was just kind of confusing.

By default, wifi firmware. Other than that, some of the main repo and almost the entirety of the restricted and multiverse repos.

[BrokeBody]

Along with BLAG (http://blagblagblag.org) and, of course, gNewSense (http://gnewsense.org).



I know, but Stallman says that only Ututo is like 100% free. :rolleyes: He irritates me sometimes. :mad:

[mushroom]

I got those straight from FSF's site. Weird.

[Dainn]

thanks!

[forrestcupp]

Just wanted to step in, because I found something said on the thread curious. I thought Ubuntu was free, what about it isn't free? I'm new, so bear with me, this was just kind of confusing.
Thanks

In case you're extremely new, they aren't talking about free as in a price tag. They're talking about free as in what you can do with the source code, etc. You don't have to pay for Ubuntu.

[Somenoob]

Steve Ballmer dislikes anything that doesn't financially support him.

[deanlinkous]

I know, but Stallman says that only Ututo is like 100% free. :rolleyes: He irritates me sometimes. :mad:

http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions

[BrokeBody]

@deanlinkous

I saw that recently, but that's what he said when he was coming here. :-k

[neaolin]

Bill Clinton loves Ubuntu (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5388182.stm), kind of.

I also heard that Chuck Norris uses Ubuntu. He was quoted as saying, "I don't add repositories, repositories add me." (sorry, I couldn't resist)