gNewSense 1.0 is now online: http://www.gnewsense.org/
It's an Ubuntu-based distro with the non-free bit scraped out.
Here's the release announcement: http://www.fsf.org/news/gnewsense
Developers, documenters, and a userbase are sought. The current devs can usually be found on #gnewsense on irc.freenode.net
Hi,
Just a word to say: thank you and long life to gNewSense.
Can someone explain the meaning of this distribution name btw ? :)
On 03-Nov-2006, Xavier Maillard wrote:
Just a word to say: thank you and long life to gNewSense.
Hear hear. I'm glad someone has put the love back into Ubuntu to make it free software again.
Can someone explain the meaning of this distribution name btw ? :)
I suspect it has something to do with the way the word "new" is pronounced in the USA. Not speaking that foreign language, I can't be sure.
Am Donnerstag, dem 02. Nov 2006 schrieb Ciaran O'Riordan:
gNewSense 1.0 is now online: http://www.gnewsense.org/
It's an Ubuntu-based distro with the non-free bit scraped out.
Huh? As far as I can remember there were plans to make a "GNUbuntu"... What happened to that?
"Andreas K. Foerster" list@AKFoerster.de
As far as I can remember there were plans to make a "GNUbuntu"...
Why invite potential trademark problems? Why advertise Ubuntu if it's not good enough?
It's great to see a FSF-approved debian-based distribution. Hopefully they will be good at cooperating with debian. Now I'm back on DSL, I'm downloading to take a look, so I'll send CDs at cost to anyone who wants them ASAP - mail me off-list if you want or know someone who wants them (but I guess most people here have their own high-speed and burners).
Drawbacks I see so far are Firefox, being not-yet-all-free-software (although they are honest about that, which is good) and bugs.gnewsense.org says I must be logged in to report a bug, even after I complete the login page. A login-required bug tracker is a silly idea anyway IMO. Overall, seems a good start. Please, if anyone is further in testing this, post/link reviews from this thread.
Thanks,
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 04:20 +0100, Andreas K. Foerster wrote:
Huh? As far as I can remember there were plans to make a "GNUbuntu"... What happened to that?
That was a plan by Canonical, however RMS would not give permission to call it "GNUbuntu" for a variety of reasons and Mark Shuttleworth only wanted to continue "GNUbuntu" if he had RMS' blessing.
Cheers,
Gareth