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wiki.ubuntu-fr.org — The Penguin Liberation Front is a team that builds litigious packages, (packages that are patent encumbered or proprietary.) The PLF has been providing litigious packages for Mandriva for many years. Currently the team is doing the same thing for Ubuntu.

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  • sumrandommember, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1+digg!!! Ubuntu rocks
  • Illuminatus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thanks for the digg. Thar be useful stuff there. Yarrrr!
  • mooninite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What about RedHat/Fedora Core? Sometimes freshrpms.net isn't always up to date.

    RPM ftl eh?
  • tranix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thank you PLF! Citizens of France, fight multinational corruption of politicians!
  • feross, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Vive! la France, Vive! la Révolution!
  • antonbondar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0that is true, but a lot of content had been removed from the backports repos.
  • Tsuroerusu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm not a fan of Ubuntu, but I do think this is good for people who are, because the PLF usually do this job very very well.
  • codeyman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That rocks... Ubuntu is just a font away from perfect.
  • Abyss_908, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Cool. Gonna try Unbuntu soon, getting some install CDs in the mail for free.
  • psylence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Restricted plugins for Ubuntu...

    _Plugins_ ?

    ...
  • FreyrVanir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0PLF has always been a great clearing house for non gpl programs for mandrake. Hopefully the people that make packages for ubuntu will start putting thier packages on there so users have a one stop shop.

    How to add the mirrors. Do "sudo synaptic" in a terminal then go thru the menus
    Settings -> Repositories -> Add -> Custom ->
    deb http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/ breezy free non-free
    -> Add Repository

    It will update your package list and you ready to go. Just do a search for what you need.

    Here are a few good packages.
    j2re #Java
    opera
    w32codecs #mplayer codecs
  • vitorsilva, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you use "Easy Ubuntu" you get this and alot of other stuff on your Ubuntu/Kubuntu machine also. :)
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Cool stuff...
  • emag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0benstockwell: THANK YOU! I've been missing the marillat stuff since upgrading to an amd64 and deciding to "go native" instead of going i386.
  • FreyrVanir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0funderbolt (1)
    Just you ^.^

    Penguin = Linux Mascot
    Liberation = Program that might be illegal(DMCA,Etc..) in the US but not in most of the world with a brain.
    Front = One stop shopping for the above.
  • FreyrVanir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0celticeric adding this custom in synaptic.
    deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main universe multiverse restricted

    Backports I believe are no longer unoffical.
  • BenStockwell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For Debian users: http://debian.video.free.fr/
  • celticeric, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Just before Ubuntu Breezy Badger was released, the unoffical backports disappeared. After upgrading my distro, I seriously missed a few things. This PLF repository looks like promising start. I tested it today, and what they've got so far works without borking anything.
  • ThomasTuttle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0funderbolt, it's just you.

    I'm American, and to me it's funny. It's penguin-related, clearly, and it's liberating software/algorithms from the captivity of patents/DMCA/other ridiculous stuff.
  • funderbolt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"Penguin Liberation Front"

    Is it just me or does this title strike you as some MidEast, Militant, Contra-Band organization, or is it just because I'm American?

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