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www/distros common-distros.html
From: |
Richard M. Stallman |
Subject: |
www/distros common-distros.html |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:24:09 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Richard M. Stallman <rms> 13/11/26 00:24:09
Modified files:
distros : common-distros.html
Log message:
Give more info about Mint and Slackware.
Cleanup for Gentoo.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/distros/common-distros.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.73&r2=1.74
Patches:
Index: common-distros.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/distros/common-distros.html,v
retrieving revision 1.73
retrieving revision 1.74
diff -u -b -r1.73 -r1.74
--- common-distros.html 11 Oct 2013 04:01:38 -0000 1.73
+++ common-distros.html 26 Nov 2013 00:24:09 -0000 1.74
@@ -111,8 +111,8 @@
<h3 id="Gentoo">Gentoo GNU/Linux</h3>
-<p>Gentoo makes it easy to install a number of nonfree programs through
-its primary package system.</p>
+<p>Gentoo includes installation recipes for a number of nonfree
+programs in its primary package system.</p>
<h3 id="Mandriva">Mandriva GNU/Linux</h3>
@@ -129,7 +129,8 @@
<p>Mint does not have a policy against including nonfree software, it
includes nonfree binary blobs in drivers packaged with the kernel, and
-it includes nonfree programs in its repositories.</p>
+it includes nonfree programs in its repositories. It even includes
+proprietary codecs.</p>
<h3 id="openSUSE">openSUSE GNU/Linux</h3>
@@ -151,8 +152,10 @@
<p>Slackware has the two usual problems: there's no clear policy about
what software can be included, and nonfree blobs are included in
Linux, the kernel. It also ships with the nonfree image-viewing
-program xv. Of course, with no firm policy in place, there might be
-other nonfree software included that we missed.</p>
+program xv. Of course, with no firm policy against them, more non-free
+programs could get in at any time. There is an
+<a href="http://freeslack.net/">unofficial list</a> of nonfree software
+in Slackware.</p>
<h3 id="SteamOS">SteamOS</h3>
@@ -289,7 +292,7 @@
<p>Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2013/10/11 04:01:38 $
+$Date: 2013/11/26 00:24:09 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
- www/distros common-distros.html,
Richard M. Stallman <=