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Non-free software on linex [was Re: Debian Weekly News - August 19th, 2003]



On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:33:12PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 August 2003 22:12, Martin Schulze wrote:

[...]

> > [2]Libranet 2.8, which is based on Debian. Richard Stallman [3]said
> > he now prefers the [4]GNU/LinEx distribution over Debian because of
> > non-free software on our FTP servers. 

[...]

> Let me see...
> I go to the linex home page. What do i see ?
> "GNU/LinEx y tarjetas NVIDIA".
> Oh well, seems interesting, so I go in the page and see that they seem to 
> provide some package for nvidia drivers. Maybe newer drivers (their distro is 
> based on woody, so...)
> Ok, let's google a bit, and.... shazaam !
> http://www.linex.org/sources/linex/debian/linex/nvidia-glx_1.0.4349-1_i386.deb
> Oh ! non-free software !
> 
> Thanks Richard for keeping me laughing.

There's more of it: http://www.linex.org/sources/linex/debian/linex/
lists acroread_4.05-3, mplayer_0.90pre5-3
flashplugin-nonfree_6.0.79-1, hsflinmodem-linex_0.5.2-1

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Hans Ekbrand

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