Ututo-e: "The only free distribution" revisited

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on May 11, 2006 8:26 PM EDT
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A year ago, I reviewed Ututo-e, an Argentinian distribution based on Gentoo. Ututo-e is known mainly as the only GNU/Linux distribution endorsed by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation (FSF). This endorsement is based on the fact that Ututo-e, in the words of Peter Brown of the FSF, "makes a commitment to follow the philosophy of the FSF as to what makes a distribution ethically free software." Last year, this endorsement seemed premature, because Ututo-e, while promising in some places, was buggy in many more. A year later, the 2006 release of Ututo XS is more polished, especially in its desktop and selection of administration tools, but its English version still falls below the standard of leading distributions such as Debian or Fedora Core.

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Just have to say.. it's not Ututo-e... cjcox 28 1,870 May 15, 2006 12:52 PM
Or Ubuntu Tracer 12 1,655 May 12, 2006 2:46 PM

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