Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 10, 2007 05:56 AM
Free contains only free / open source software, so no proprietary drivers or firmware or browser plugins. However, all the most important non-free packages are available from the official public non-free repository, which is easy to set up and use on Free, and once the packages are installed from here they work just as they would on the Powerpack.
All the non-free drivers and firmware are in the public non-free repository, along with some plugins (Java, most notably). A small amount of plugins and applications (including Flash and Acrobat Reader) are only available in the commercial editions or to Club members, but you can get the original versions of these from the publisher's websites, of course.
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Re:Differences between Powerpack and Free?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 10, 2007 05:56 AMAll the non-free drivers and firmware are in the public non-free repository, along with some plugins (Java, most notably). A small amount of plugins and applications (including Flash and Acrobat Reader) are only available in the commercial editions or to Club members, but you can get the original versions of these from the publisher's websites, of course.
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