gNewSense removes the binary blobs of software that are essentially non-free so if you are going to use it in a laptop, chances are, your wifi will not work because the driver is non-free (ipw2200 for instance). If you are using it on a desktop, the chances of it to work out of the box would be higher.
When we talk of non-free in gNewSense, we mean non-free in FSF terms (which makes sense after all development of gNewSense is funded by FSF). One may ask "ok what's the difference between ubuntu?" Aside from the stuff I mentioned above, there are uses who do mind the freedom of using a computer without any hitches - I for one am very upset of not being able to do good accelerated graphics with free drivers (I have to rely on non-free nvida-glx drivers) that won't affect other aspects of my machine's functions (hibernate/suspend for instance). Of course, if your motherboard doesn't support a free BIOS (LinuxBIOS for example), then you are not yet truly free...ahh the complexities of freedom. Jerome -- Jerome Gotangco [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 0x9E379FC6 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
