gNewSense
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| Author | Content |
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| Andreas Nov 28, 2006 5:09 PM EDT |
"and finding more excuses to bundle binary proprietary code" By its very nature gNewSense doesn't bundle or ship proprietary software. Should you find some, please report a bug. |
| devnet Nov 28, 2006 6:28 PM EDT |
gNewSense is silly IMO. If I wanted Ubuntu without proprietary software, I'd use Debian. Honestly, it's reinventing the wheel and taking credit for it. |
| tuxchick Nov 28, 2006 7:30 PM EDT |
The article doesn't say that gNewSense bundles or ships proprietary software. |
| dcparris Nov 28, 2006 10:15 PM EDT |
TC: I think the OP was just bragging. Possibly a member of the gNewSense team? ;-) |
| tuxchick Nov 28, 2006 10:36 PM EDT |
Oh well, OK then! |
| rijelkentaurus Nov 29, 2006 1:59 AM EDT |
>gNewSense is silly IMO. If I wanted Ubuntu without proprietary software, I'd use Debian. I believe that the point of gNewSense is that proprietary software is not included at all, whereas Debian has repositories for nonfree items. gNewSense will never contain the option to tempt users. I personally don't see anything silly about it. |
| Sander_Marechal Nov 29, 2006 2:31 AM EDT |
Nope. Debian also ships a few binary blobs as part of the standard install. They're nearly required unfortnately or most installs will fail. They're working on reverse engineering them for some time. IIRC most distro's ship those, even FC. gNewSense removes even these essential drivers so will likely not work correctly on most computers. |
| Andreas Nov 29, 2006 3:15 AM EDT |
"Can you please take a time out from endlessly forking and doing your own things, and finding more excuses to bundle binary proprietary code" where "you" could refer to the list of distributors that included gNewSense. But if nobody, including the author, looked at it that way, there's no problem at all. I'm just writing this to show what inspired my OP. |
| dcparris Nov 29, 2006 6:55 AM EDT |
Given the recent news about gNewSense, I doubt most of us saw it that way. Carla might have intended for gNewSense and other distros to get involved as well, regardless of their position on non-Free software. Grammatically, it would depend heavily on context, but saves a bit of typing. ;-) |
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