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[LUG] Shaking hands with the devil?

 

After starting the thread on Ubuntu and freedom I just thought I'd share
with everyone the possible irony(?) that I've just installed openSuse
10.2...

Although, as far as I'm aware the agreement doesn't infringe the GPL or
admit Microsoft has an IP claim against GNU/Linux. Maybe I'm being
naive? Beyond that they've taken the same approach to non-free stuff as
Debian, and it's available in a separate repository and clearly labelled
as "Proprietary" during installation. 

I have to say though I'm pretty impressed with the system so far:
install took a bit longer than I'm used to and a few of the defaults are
a bit strange, but these are easy to change! I love the new Gnome menu
that they've got on here too - integrated beagle search and easy access
to the Gnome control centre give it a really nice feel :-)

Maybe I'll even add a review to the wiki!! This is the first time I've
used a distro and felt quite so enthused about it! Now, off to
gnome-look.org to find some good icons....

Jon


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