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FSF-Approved gNewSense 2.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the this-one-is-really-not-unix dept.

An anonymous reader writes "gNewSense DeltaH (2.0), a second major release of a GNU/Linux distribution with focus on freedom, has just been released. It is based on Ubuntu 8.04 which was released less than week ago. gNewSense is one of the few GNU/Linux distributions listed as free by the GNU Project."

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  1. And why do we need another Distro? by Alpha232 · · Score: 5, Funny

    From http://www.gnewsense.org/Main/Features

    emacs, bsdgames, nethack and build-essential part of the default install And now we know...
    1. Re:And why do we need another Distro? by libervisco · · Score: 5, Informative

      It's much more than that. You'd be surprised at how careful they are not to ship with a single bit that is not Free Software.

      It may seem ludicrous to some at first, but think about the benefit. Even if you wont use it as your main system you can use it to test just how much of your hardware is 100% Free Software compliant, or you can use it to see what hardware you should buy that is 100% compliant.

      And Free Software compliant hardware equals best possible experience - since it will all then work out of the box, with bugs fixed and improvements steadily coming, because you don't need to depend on some third party for everything.

      gNewSense plays a crucial role.

      You can read a bit more about that here http://www.nuxified.org/blog/gnewsense_2_0_a_premier_freedomware_platform_based_on_ubuntu_8_04_lts_released


      Cheers