No Closed Video Drivers For Next Ubuntu Release

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @10:30PM from the defaulting-to-freedom dept.

lisah writes "Ubuntu's next release, Feisty Fawn, is due out in April and, according to company CTO Matt Zimmerman, proprietary video drivers failed to make the cut for the default install. Zimmerman told Linux.com that although the software required for Composite support is not ready for prime-time and therefore will not be included in Feisty, Ubuntu hasn't given up entirely on including video drivers in future releases. '[T]he winds aren't right yet. We will continue to track development and will revisit the decision if things change significantly.' Ambiguous or not, the decision to exclude proprietary drivers for now should satisfy at least some members of the Ubuntu Community. In other Feisty Fawn news, the Board also decided to downgrade support for Power PC due to a lack of funding." Linux.com and Slashdot are both part of OSTG.

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Re:more than just desktops, by torako · 2007-02-14 00:01 · Score: 1, Offtopic

What's wrong with csh?
Re:more than just desktops, by Deliveranc3 · 2007-02-14 03:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I just used synaptic to upgrade from Dapper to Edgy, it hosed my swap partition (The move from logical disks to UUIDs broke them)... My local linux guru can't fix it.

So please go on about how great the official packages are?