I believe what you say, and I appreciate your efforts that helped bring the CIID directive crashing to a halt over two years ago!:)
However you said that the Toshiba laptop that you purchased came with Windows (unless I misunderstood your post). That means that some of your money went back to Microsoft.:(
BTW, the machines are now available if you go to http://dell.co.uk/ubuntu. They don't seem to be available from anywhere on Dell's main site, but that was to be expected and follows the precedent set by their US site (dell.com).
The links on that page didn't work a few hours ago, but they are fine now. I assume that it takes a few hour for any kind of update to be applied to all of Dell's horribly complicated and confusing site. Of course, it seems to be too much to hope for Dell to update the web site before announcing that the Ubuntu systems are available... it's too late now since this whole story is full of comments saying that the links are broken.:)
I got the linux-restricted-modules-$KVERS package installed by default. I'm uncertain whether universe/multiverse were enabled by default (I needed xserver-xorg-video-intel and I think that I saw that they were enabled when I went to do it myself).
Whether this is still a GPL violation is a question for Eben Moglen and the other FSF lawyers, but the senior Dosbox developers are perfectly happy with the situation now, so it probably won't be pursued further. I must correct this. Whether this is a GPL violation is solely determined by the copyright holders of the work (i.e., Dosbox authors). The FSF has nothing to do with it (unless some of the infringed-upon code is owned by them).
I didn't state my opinion on whether having the non-free stuff installed was a good or bad thing... I just wanted to correct the chap who claimed that this was not the case.
Wrong. I have installed Ubuntu on two separate machines, and both times I got non-free drivers installed by default, and the 'restricted' component of the package repository enabled ('multiverse' too, I think).
Jesus Christ, the forums must be full of crap. ALL you need to do is install mplayer, or VLC, or if you want to watch DVDs in Totem, totem-xine and libdvdcss2. No config editing or any of that crap.
Feel free to show that those distributing w32codecs have permission to do so. Why don't we check its copyright file?
This package was debianized by Christian Marillat on Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:31:26 +0100.
Erm, did you even read the analysis? Automatix craps untracked files all over the user's system. It makes to effort to interoperate with Ubuntu's package manager (dpkg) and is even prone to race conditions that could leave the system unbootable!
In other words, it is not a mechanism by which IPv4 software and hosts can use IPv6. It is instead a mechanism by which IPv6 software on dual-stack hosts can use IPv4. I can't just plop down a special router and poof my IPv4-only hosts can interoperate with your IPv6-only hosts at least until we run out of IPv4 addresses. It sounds like you want 6to4?
The ghastly PC partitioning system and the horrible kludges that we have to perform to get our PCs to boot are a weight around our necks. But things have been this way for so long that some of us seem to accept it as the natural order of things and question why we should ever strive for something better.
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I believe what you say, and I appreciate your efforts that helped bring the CIID directive crashing to a halt over two years ago! :)
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However you said that the Toshiba laptop that you purchased came with Windows (unless I misunderstood your post). That means that some of your money went back to Microsoft.
BTW, the machines are now available if you go to http://dell.co.uk/ubuntu. They don't seem to be available from anywhere on Dell's main site, but that was to be expected and follows the precedent set by their US site (dell.com).
The links on that page didn't work a few hours ago, but they are fine now. I assume that it takes a few hour for any kind of update to be applied to all of Dell's horribly complicated and confusing site. Of course, it seems to be too much to hope for Dell to update the web site before announcing that the Ubuntu systems are available... it's too late now since this whole story is full of comments saying that the links are broken.
Thanks for continuing to prop up MICROS~1 and helping to find their pro-software-patents and anti-freedom campaigns!
I got the linux-restricted-modules-$KVERS package installed by default. I'm uncertain whether universe/multiverse were enabled by default (I needed xserver-xorg-video-intel and I think that I saw that they were enabled when I went to do it myself).
The UK does recognise software patents; check out http://mp3licensing.com/patents/index.html for a list to start with.
Even if we didn't recognise software patents, there is still the problem that libdvdcss is made illegal by our implementation of the EUCD.
I didn't state my opinion on whether having the non-free stuff installed was a good or bad thing... I just wanted to correct the chap who claimed that this was not the case.
URL:http://dell.co.uk/ubuntu
The links from there are currently broken, however.
Wrong. I have installed Ubuntu on two separate machines, and both times I got non-free drivers installed by default, and the 'restricted' component of the package repository enabled ('multiverse' too, I think).
Ita vero, amice!
Please file a bug!
No, instead it suffers from lazy third party application support.
Sounds like you removed it?
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Jesus Christ, the forums must be full of crap. ALL you need to do is install mplayer, or VLC, or if you want to watch DVDs in Totem, totem-xine and libdvdcss2. No config editing or any of that crap.
The plural of "anecdote" is not "data".
Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:31:26 +0100.
It was downloaded from http://mp.dev.hu/homepage/dload.html
Upstream Author: Various
Copyright: various too. I can't quite seem to see the paragraph in there that grants anyone permission to redistribute the software.
They already have; the repositories are called 'restricted' and 'multiverse' (the former is supported by Canonical, the latter is not).
The 'w32codecs' package is warez.
Erm, did you even read the analysis? Automatix craps untracked files all over the user's system. It makes to effort to interoperate with Ubuntu's package manager (dpkg) and is even prone to race conditions that could leave the system unbootable!
Has that ever been shown in a court?
Or (effectively) when you upgrade a library package that all your programs are linked against.
Your insightful truth makes Science cry. :'(
Do you administrate these servers from the clients that you install these drivers on? :)
I think that Moving to SATA is orthogonal to adopting EFI, Open Firmware, Multiboot, or another scheme to bring the PC architecture out of the 80s. :)
The ghastly PC partitioning system and the horrible kludges that we have to perform to get our PCs to boot are a weight around our necks. But things have been this way for so long that some of us seem to accept it as the natural order of things and question why we should ever strive for something better.