Re: [Trisquel-users] I have long thought this about gnewsense,

[dguthrie]

1. Neither is the Trisquel kernel. Debian removes firmware in a similar way.
2. Debian and Ubuntu have similar number of packages as Ubuntu is itself a  
more bloated realisation of Debian.
But obviously these are not reasons to not have a fully free version of  
Debian that isn't extremely outdated. I would also argue that it would be  
better because Debian is more stable and lightweight. They do have long term  
support: release Squeeze for instance was supported until February 2016.