Changes to Gobuntu | Linux Today

Changes to Gobuntu

Written By
JB
Jono Bacon
Jun 16, 2008

“The Gobuntu development team would like to announce that after
8.04 release of Gobuntu, the project will aim to merge many of the
Gobuntu changes into mainline Ubuntu, such as our ‘Free Software
Only’ installer option which only installs software considered free
by the Free Software Foundation’s definition of software freedom.
This installer option now obviates the need for a separate
derivative project, and in the interest of reducing the workload of
Ubuntu core developers, the Gobuntu project will instead focus on
merging as many changes as possible into mainline Ubuntu…”

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