> While I have been weeding out non-free software for awhile > now, I was still holding on to some codecs and the occasional > application.
There are many codecs with free implementations, I never had a problem with missing codecs on Trisquel. Some distros don't include e.g. MP3 support due to patent problems which don't affect Spain where Trisquel is developed. > Actually, I am multi-booting Trisquel with four other > Linux distros, one being Debian 6 Squeeze (stable). As I understand, > Debian has removed all non-free blobs from their kernel, and I only > use the base repositories. So, my Debian partition may be free, I’m > not sure. Trisquel uses a different definition of free software. The most well-known difference is that the original Artistic License is not considered free here, while it is in Debian. We also don't include/edit packages recommending nonfree software. > Lastly, the default install only included the Midori browser, which is > fine as I like it. But, I wanted a more established browser for sites > that Midori just doesn’t work with. I was not familiar with the > Abrowser, so I chose to download GNU IceCat. However, what I got was > both GNU IceCat “and” Abrowser, even though I only selected GNU > IceCat. Is that normal? Now I have three web browsers, two of them > being essentially the same. Not a big deal, but I was confused after > adding a couple extensions to IceCat, and later they seem to have > disappeared along with my bookmarks before I realized I was in a > different web browser...Abrowser. I suppose I should have been paying > more attention, hmmm. Abrowser is an unbranded Firefox with Ubuntu patches changed to not recommend nonfree plugins or addons. We don't use just IceCat due to some bugs which don't occur in Abrowser.
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