I am always impressed with the Fedora community to help each other more so than other distros I've tried. Thanks for taking the time to clarify and for the assistance. I hope this clarified, rather than further muddied, the waters.This certainly helps. So, in short, non-free just refers to free as in free speech, such as an Nvidia driver, and doesn't mean that you should have to pay for it. I hope this clarified, rather than further muddied, the waters. I would *guess*, without doing any checking, that some of the packages in their free section would be fine with Fedora's philosophy too, just that no one at RH or Fedora got around to making a package for it. I think anyone using RH or a clone quickly becomes aware of them, and realizes that it's not really a negative self-description, it just means that for various reasons, Fedora can't or won't package something. Fedora has a very strict policy about only being opensource, completely open source, as in code is available to all, and so on. Other things might be certain audio codecs that aren't opensource and may have binary blobs to them, or are simply licensed differently. There are binary blobs involved in the Nvidia driver. No, they aren't thing you would have to pay for, using Nvidia as an example again, Nvidia allows people to use their stuff for free, as in Free Gatorade Zero, but not free as in Free Speech. Not that I can read their minds, but I think they feel that most people going to them realize what unacceptable to Fedora means, i.e., that it's not opensource. This of course, varies with each person, but as you get more comfortable with it, you may find yourself getting annoyed at these GUi programs. I prefer the command line, especiall y because if there's a problem, I can often see what's wrong, instead of a dialog box with something like, oh no, something's wrong, or other cutesy error messages-or even non-cute error messages, either way, it's easier to see what's wrong using the command line than it is waiting for a GUI to try, fail to work, and then 3 minutes later give a message, there was a problem.įor many of us, working with the command line can be fun. (If you are an opensource purist, however, this might not be a good thing for you.)įedora, as well as many other variants, often offer a release, such as Fedora's Workstation, that will hide the command line in many cases. I've been using rpmfusion for years, both free and non-free, without issue. As for rpmfusion, in many cases, especially with the non-free repo, the reason Fedora won't ship is because it's not open source, such as Nvidia.
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