On 25/07/19 00:40, Will Hill wrote: > I'm not sure about Devuan's commitment to software freedom. The last time I > looked, the default install seemed to include non free software and Mono, > both of which were backward steps from Debian. I'm not entirely happy with > the direction Debian is moving either which is why I'm here.
They're at least committed in spirit [1], but it's weird that they have a non-free section in their package repo (that contains binary-only packages, not just FDL docs) and that they keep blobs in their VCS [2]. I suspect that gNewSense (if it continues) basing on Devuan is more likely that Devuan built on gNewSense. My take on gNewSense was to follow Debian except where non-free software is concerned. So even though I'm not a big fan of systemd myself, I had no plans to do anything about that in gNewSense. If I had continued, then I might have made you (almost) as unhappy. :) > The folks at exe GNU/Linux might be better, starting with the GNU in their > name and inclusion of TDE desktop. I attempted to contact David Hare on his, > oh my, Sourceforge project page. I was unable find other contact information > in the time I spent looking. Hopefully, he will be in touch with good news > and you two will have much to talk about. Cool. I'm curious about what he has to say. [1] https://devuan.org/os/free-software [2] https://git.devuan.org/devuan-packages/raspi-firmware _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list gNewSense-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
