Science-fiction ;-)

[t u]

Tim Schmidt wrote:
> On 9/28/06, Gnu/Linux Technology <linux.fr at laposte.net> wrote:
>> This choices are more political than technical, but we have to talk
>> about to find how to allows more and more users to migrate to open-systems.
(reverse snip)
>> I could see during install party that it is the more diificult 
>> part to explain why this stuff is not inside Ubuntu according to GPL. 
>> Newbies don't understand why the distro is not functionnal out of the 
>> box (like it was in 2004 releases of Simply MEPIS).
> 
> http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/philosophy
> 
> --tim
> 

this might be better: http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/licensing
you could give them a copy of that page.

but an easier way to install all those things is always welcome to
newbies :)
choices include automatix and easyubuntu (I think there is one more, but
forgot)
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