New distribution: gNewSense 1.0

New distribution: gNewSense 1.0

Posted Nov 3, 2006 13:39 UTC (Fri) by mbanck (subscriber, #9035)
In reply to: New distribution: gNewSense 1.0 by Felix_the_Mac
Parent article: New distribution: gNewSense 1.0

I really can't say because I was in no way involved with this, but from indirect comments from FSF and Canonical people and casual mentionings of seemingly related stuff by Canonical developers, I have the feeling Canonical is fine with this derived distribution and maybe even gave technical advise and help on how to do this.

The FSF has advertised several very exotic GNU/Linux distributions as being "the 100% Free one" in the past, so having something 100% Free (as in FSF) on a solid Debian/Ubuntu base is a nice thing. It does not look likely that they would move away from stable Ubuntu a lot, and it does not make much sense to do so, either.

It is just unfortunate that it took over 100 Debian derived distributions until somebody came up with something liked by the FSF, and then it is only indirectly based on the community leader for Freedom.

Michael

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