Chris Grau([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 08:35:17AM
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> Aside from that, I found the most interesting bit of the article
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> the incidental discussion of gNewSense[0].
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> On investigating gNewSense further, I see that it's a
completely new
> Linux distribution, because popular distributions like Ubuntu
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> Fedora are happy to include proprietary software.
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> ... according to the gNewSense wiki[2],
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> gNewSense is a GNU/Linux project that aims to remove all the
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> non-free software from Ubuntu and Debian to make a 100% Free
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> Software distribution.
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> So what's to stop people from adding proprietary Debian or Ubuntu
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> packages? Okay, obviously that completely misses the point.
Anyone who
> went to the trouble to install and use gNewSense is not likely to
have
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I've seen a package in the Debian repository called "vrms". It's a
"Virtual Richard M. Stallman" which whines at you if/when you
install anything that RMS would not approve of. If excluding
non-free software is the only differentiating characteristic, I
don't see where gNewSense would be worthy of the effort to
reinstall. It makes less sense considering how easy it is to add
unofficial repositories to apt's sources.list file.
> [0] http://www.gnewsense.org/static/homepage/
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> [2] http://wiki.gnewsense.org/
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Wade Curry
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