> The reason RMS uses gNewSense is because he has a > [http://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html lemote laptop] which > contains a non x86 (MIPS I believe) architecture. Trisquel does not > have a MIPS version so he can't install it on his computer.
I believe he uses it since it has no nonfree user-installable nonfree software (the EC and hard disk firmware practically can be treated as hardware) and using it won't promote nonfree operating systems (unlike the OLPC). I don't know any x86 machines with these features. > However, gNewSense is based off Ubuntu 8.04 I think which is from > 2008. The current version of Trisquel is based off Ubuntu 11.10 which > is from the end of 2011 so it is much more up to date. The current release of gNS doesn't support MIPS, only newer Debian-based ones do. So it's not too old if Debian Squeeze is not too old. > Since broadcom > free'd it's drivers after 2008 it is more likely Trisquel will just > work out of the box then gNewSense. They have freed other drivers that don't use nonfree firmware? > But yeah I wouldn't use gNewSense unless you have a specific reason > like RMS with the computer architecture. RMS and the GNU project have > given Trisquel their blessing so there is no reason to think gNewSense > is superior to Trisquel in any sort of ethical/free software fashion. > They are both free distros. Parabola also works on a YeeLoong and has newer packages.
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