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   From: "Mike Easter"    
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   Subject: Re: Canonical and Linspire Announce Technology Partnership   
   Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 14:10:38 -0800   
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   MCR wrote:   
      
   > This is good news.  Now that Linspire can take the heat for   
   > distrubuting binary blobs in their distro and us ubuntu users get to   
   > use an official tool, similar to Automatix I guess to make our   
   > systems easier to maintain.   
      
   The Ub developers would like to see an Ub sanctioned way to achieve   
   Automatix or EasyUb rather than 3rd party routes.   
      
   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommonCustomizations  With the many community   
   customization scripts floating around, it is relevant to provide   
   relevant information about the status of integrating the changes these   
   scripts provide in Ubuntu. -- Why scripts are problematic - Contributed   
   scripts like this do not provide the best user experience possible.   
      
   http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=186792  Ubuntu   
   Customization Guide - Quick Start   
      
   > The question is,.. do users recommend Ubuntu or Linspire for noobs?   
      
   Most new users are going to want/need access to the codecs and   
   repositories and applications which are not consistent with Ub's   
   philosophy at http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/philosophy   
      
   Much to the contrary, Linspire is 'full of' those applications and   
   codecs, and so are some Ub derived distros, such as Mint Linux.   
      
   Ub community support is vastly superior to Linspire's.   
      
   Ub wants to be more friendly to access to the absent codecs and apps,   
   and Linspire wants the advantages of being Ub-ish.   
      
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   Mike Easter   
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