I tried the new Ubuntu 6.06 on my laptop and it was
able to detect and install the Linksys Realtek 8180
drivers for my wireless b card right off the bat.
Despite a well polished Gnome Desktop, I still
preferred Debian and decided to use Debian Etch since
the release is only a few months away (I
On Thursday August 17, 2006 10:14 am, Anthony Simonelli wrote:
I tried the new Ubuntu 6.06 on my laptop and it was
able to detect and install the Linksys Realtek 8180
drivers for my wireless b card right off the bat.
Despite a well polished Gnome Desktop, I still
preferred Debian and decided
but the winmodem driver is not open source software so it's against to the debian policyChristos
That's what I'm trying to figure out. Are the
closed-source drivers for these devices compiled into
Ubuntu or FreeSpire's kernels? If so, how is it done?
How does Ubuntu get away with using them in their
Kernel and yet remain free without any EULA? I know
that (Lin)FreeSpire require you to
On Thursday 17 August 2006 20:59, Anthony Simonelli wrote:
That's what I'm trying to figure out. Are the
closed-source drivers for these devices compiled into
Ubuntu or FreeSpire's kernels? If so, how is it done?
How does Ubuntu get away with using them in their
Kernel and yet remain free
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 22:40 +0300, Margiolas Christos wrote:
but the winmodem driver is not open source software so it's against
to the debian policy
Christos
Ubuntu is also particularly pedantic in this regard.
You may be able to use the Ubuntu kernel packages on the debian
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