On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 20:45 +0200, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote: > Il giorno martedì 06/09/2011 13:58:35 CEST > Ted Smith <te...@riseup.net> ha scritto: > > > Ubuntu can be configured to install only free software, and you can > > install linux-libre, which makes it as free as Debian is, as far as > > I'm concerned. > > do you know any ubuntu user which have installed the os using > only free software repos and also the linux-libre kernel? > how many in percent? > and, if it makes ubuntu as free as debian, why do not they have > installed debian directly? > ;-)
I am one such user, and I use Ubuntu because it's a coherent system that has decent usability. I recommend the same setup to everyone I provide support for. Debian isn't interesting to me because it seems too unwilling to make decisions for users. Ubuntu preserves the ability of users to make decisions for themselves, but sets sane defaults that reduce dissatisfaction related to making choices (this is a well-studied phenomena in psychology and one that all free software projects would do well to heed). Further, in future releases of Ubuntu, installing linux-libre won't be necessary, since the free variant of linux will be inherited from Debian.
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