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Great idea but for someone new to Linux I’d recommend Linux Mint its Ubuntu but with Flash, MP3s,DVDs and everything working out of the box I’ve installed it for people new to Linux and they’ve had no problems with it so far.
Lovely….I wanted to reinstall windows xp on my mothers laptop for her, and was going to do a dual boot with ubuntu. Would be a pleasant suprise if she saw it with an XP theme =]
Ah I see yes you’re right but my point still stands Google Chrome is cross platform but Linux only applications are on the whole free and open source.
The source code is under a BSD license, but the application isn’t, there is difference. When you install Chrome on your system, you are accepting an EULA with several non-free restrictions. At the moment, Google Chrome is not recommended by the Free-Software Foundation — It is NOT free-software.
Google chrome is free and open source its released under a BSD license but yeah Google Earth is proprietary but its a port from the windows version it isn’t a Linux only application, nearly all Linux only applications are free and open source but some cross platform applications like Google Earth or IBM Lotus are proprietary yes.
Not all the software on a GNU/Linux system is free. There are many non-free blobs in the kernel, and many of the applications people use are not free-software, such as Google Chrome & Google Earth.