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Why does this have a redundant "free" in the title?
by andyking 15y ago
Why does this have a redundant "free" in the title?
- olalonde 15y agoSome Linux distributions are not free (Red Hat Enterprise Linux for instance).
- munchor 15y agoAlso, the free probably refers to free software - free as in beer, and not as in free beer ;) I know some distros are not free software, but I don't know any.
- olalonde 15y agoI think you are mixing up free software and open source software. The vast majority of Linux distributions are not free software. See http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html. In the context of the article, I'm confident the "free" in the title refers to "free" as in "free beer".
- munchor 15y agoGood point, none of the distributions presented in this article are fully free software. For example, Linux Mint comes with some non-free software media codecs, and the package managers of all these 5 distros allow you to install non-free software like Adobe Flash.