Ubuntu Linux Live CD Release

tola writes "The Ubuntu development team have reached their first milestone in the production of the Live CD version of the upcoming release of Ubuntu codenamed 'Hoary Hedgehog.' This edition features a completely redesigned system for creating Live CDs. While some people have tried rough previews, this is the first proper milestone for the live CD version. Anyone, especially folks who are using our previous release (4.10 'Warty Warthog'), are encouraged to try this out. The Live CD runs completely off of the CD and will not touch any of the data on your hard drive so is a fantastic way to get a preview of new features in the upcoming Ubuntu release without upgrading your system. ISO images for i386, AMD64 and PowerPC can be downloaded from Ubuntu."

Comments

Re:RMS's choice

[dbIII]

but QT was under a proprietary license, so under the terms of the GPL, noone was allowed to distribute KDE binaries linked against QT

Did you ever read the licence at the time/s? The big hassle from the perspective of RMS was that it wasn't GPL, not the licence content, and the distros actually read the licence and didn't see any more wrong with it than stuff under the BSD and X licences, which RMS never went after because they were too big - but KDE and Trolltech were a small enough target. You don't see RMS going after ghostscript despite it not using the GPL. The licence went through various versions to try to keep people happy, but RMS made it clear that no licence other than the one he wrote would be acceptable - so it was changed to GPL in the end. This was a few years ago, so the politics is no longer relevant, it's GPL in both cases and holding a grudge is stupid.

I suspect the real reason is that the distributors prefer one system over the other and are limited by space. Taking some nasty comment from RMS from five years ago as a reason is just too silly.