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Gobuntu was a short-lived official derivative of the Ubuntu operating system that was conceived to provide a distribution consisting entirely of free software. Because Ubuntu now incorporates a "free software only" installer option, the Gobuntu project was rendered redundant in early 2008. As a result, Canonical made the decision officially to end the Gobuntu project with version 8.04. In March 2009 it was announced that "Gobuntu 8.04.1 is the final release of Gobuntu. The project has merged back to mainline Ubuntu, so there is no need for a separate distribution".〔〔 ==History and development== Mark Shuttleworth first mentioned the idea of creating an Ubuntu derivative named ''Gnubuntu'' consisting entirely of free software, on 24 November 2005.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mark Shuttleworth registers gnubuntu.org (Ubuntu mailing list) )〕 Due to Richard Stallman's disapproval of the name, the project was later renamed ''Ubuntu-libre''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ubuntu-libre )〕 Stallman had previously endorsed a distribution based on Ubuntu called gNewSense, and has criticized Ubuntu for using proprietary and non-free software in successive distributions, most notably, Ubuntu 7.04. While introducing Ubuntu 7.10, Mark Shuttleworth said that it would Gobuntu was officially announced by Mark Shuttleworth on 10 July 2007〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mark Shuttleworth >> Blog Archive >> Gobuntu is… go )〕 and daily builds of Gobuntu 7.10 began to be publicly released. The initial version, Gobuntu 7.10, was released on 18 October 2007, as an in text-only installer. The next release was the Long-Term Release codenamed "Hardy Heron", which was also only made available as an alternate installation image.〔〔 Release 7.10 initially met with criticism from some free software advocates because it included Mozilla Firefox. Firefox is not considered to be 100% free software because it includes Mozilla Foundation copyrighted icons. The Mozilla licence for the icons states that they "...may not be reproduced without permission".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Gobuntu has already failed'' )〕 After some debate on the developer list,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Firefox and Thunderbird'' thread, gobuntu-devel mailing list )〕 this problem was quickly addressed by Canonical, and the applications with non-free logos were replaced in the follow-up Gobuntu release, Hardy Heron. Firefox was replaced by Epiphany, which has free logos.〔 Because some drivers, firmware, and "binary blobs" were removed from Gobuntu, it would run on fewer computers than Ubuntu. Canonical stated at the time of release of 7.10: On 13 June 2008 Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon announced that the Gobuntu project would end with the release of Gobuntu 8.04: Shuttleworth explained: The project ended with the release of version 8.04.1.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gobuntu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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