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."

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Re:RMS's choice

[dbIII]

You are absolutely 100% wrong

No.

The QT license was not considered a free license under most definitions of free

Which of the many variations are you talking about? You would be correct if you are talking about the first one - which is why it was changed. Eventually to stop all arguments (I assume, I'm not part of KDE or troll) it was changed to the GPL.

most definitions of free

Here lies the problem - RMS has his personal redefinition of the word, makes up his own words occasionally (copyleft) and tended to repeat the same things without really explaining what he meant at the time. It all looked very silly form the sidelines, considering it was just as easy for an outsider to get their changes into qt as into gtk. I suspect the europeans, being less encumbered by copyright obsession, didn't take it as seriously. In the end Trolltech gave in to the loud repetitive american and everyone should have been happy - but the guy held a grudge.