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From: James Broadhead <jamesbroadhead@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 14:33:04 +0000
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse
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On 8 December 2011 14:25, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:10 AM, James Broadhead
> <jamesbroadhead@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Especially in the past, they have allowed their political views on
>> Open Source / Free Software to interfere with the best user
>> experience[3].
>>
>> [3] The whole concept of 'restricted extras' is detrimental to distro
>> usability, as is having a separate package-manager-frontend for
>> installing them, as is a separate repository which is disabled by
>> default.
>
> I'm not a fan of Ubuntu, but that really didn't start with them.
> *Debian* has it in a far worse way. As an example, say you're in my
> position and want Squid running as a website accelerator, and you want
> SSL support. Squid can do this. Except the binary packages Debian
> builds have SSL disabled because of fears of incompatible licenses
> between Squid and OpenSSL.
"Especially in the past" _means_ 'back when they were closer to being
Debian'. Things have improved over the years, but it's still difficult
to get a codec-heavy mplayer in Ubuntu without building it manually
for example.