Sorry for the major blip, I've been bouncing from one city to the next for various reasons. Some people take their software freedom very seriously. If you're lucky, all of your hardware will have fully-functioning open source drivers; you might even have an open BIOS . But what of the poor folk who have to use proprietary drivers to make certain things work, just because the vendors of their hardware suck? Ubuntu uses proprietary drivers from the restricted repository to make hardware work... read more