Les Mikesell wrote:
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
How does that answer my question? Let me repeat. I've asked what
policy it
is that "forced a horribly fractured 3rd party repository
situation"? I'm
not aware of any such policy.
All I can say is that with Ubuntu you can pick vendor drivers and Sun
Java 1.5 from the software management tool and you almost never have
to worry about conflicts among packages from the different repositories.
If you meant proprietary drivers, just say it. "vendor drivers" is
confusing since several of the drivers in the kernel and xorg are
vendor supported and developed and available in the repository without
conflicts.
I meant redistributable drivers, of course.
"Redistributable" is again unclear. If you meant, proprietary drivers,
they aren't always redistributable and even otherwise, their legality is
a grey area. The open source drivers are redistributable and are being
distributed.
Rahul
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