[Fsf-friends] FSF announces release of gNewSense 1.0

പ്രവീണ്‍‌|Praveen pravi.a@[EMAIL-PROTECTED]
Wed Nov 8 13:34:01 IST 2006


2006/11/3, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray <debarshi.ray at gmail.com>:
>
>
> BOSTON, November 2, 2006 - Free Software Foundation announces release of
> gNewSense version 1.0.
>
> (Screenshots available at http://www.fsf.org/news/gnewsense)



Mark Pilgrim has written about gNewSense GNU/Linux and he explains why it is
important.

"Besides the separate repositories, the "binary blobs" in question are
primarily drivers in the kernel which are distributed under non-free
licenses or which have unclear licensing terms. Debian has been struggling
with this issue <http://wiki.debian.org/KernelFirmwareLicensing> and has
decided to allow such drivers to ship in Debian Etch (due to be released
Real Soon Now). Ubuntu also ships with a tainted
kernel<http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s1-18>and a "restricted" repository
that contains Canonical-supported non-free
video drivers for ATI and nVidia cards. gNewSense rejects all such drivers
and ships a kernel which is 100% Free Software, no matter how useless that
may be in the real world. The gNewSense maintainers apparently feel that
saying you're "a little bit non-free" is akin to saying you're "a little bit
pregnant." Close doesn't count, and even if people don't notice the
difference today, they'll definitely notice it nine months from now."

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/11/06/gnewsense

Regards
Praveen

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