You're reffering to Debian Squeeze, not Wheezy. The latter one is the current
stable release and it would be quite decent if gnewsense was based on it.
However, you're right with the rest of your points.
Squeeze still gets support so using it is not a problem from a security point
of view -
GnewSense 3 is definitely based on debian Squeeze (6), not Wheezy(7),
considering how perfectly it works with GTK+2 themes, and how perfectly it
doesn't with my Nvidia GeForce 6200 GPU.
gNewSense seems to use mate (or maybe gnome 2); I heard that mate is a little
easier on older hardware.
I remember reading that there's no benefit in switching to mate if the
programs rely on gnome3 anyway. Is that correct? I may be totally wrong.
I'm thinking of giving gNewSense a try
Do current versions of programs require a more current version of gnome to
run? So gNewSense 3.1 will only run years-old versions of programs?
I thought gNewSense 3.1 is based on Debian 6.0 squeeze.
Oh I understand now -- thanks MB. I will take your advice and use Mini if I
need a lighter system down the road.
I wanted to try gNewSense for the nostalgic gui, and the possibility of
getting a little more battery life out of my laptop. My laptop handles
standard Trisquel fine though,
These suggestions might help with the battery time
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/optimizing-battery-time
thanks man
