Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Gobuntu: A Truly Free Linux Distro or a Free Drivers Experiment?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| "It has nothing whatsoever to do with Freedom," argues one of Gobuntu?s
>| contributors.
>
> http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3710061
>
> Well, the company uses a proprietary bug tracker, so...
>
Oh dear... well, they'll learn, I suppose.
>
> Related:
>
> Willing to buy a high-end, free-software-only laptop?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| To that end I?d like to build up a list of people who are interested in this
>| idea, and would potentially buy a high-powered laptop if it were guaranteed
>| to work completely with free software drivers and OpenBIOS.
> `----
>
> http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/131
>
>
> Gobuntu is? go
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Thanks to Colin and Evan?s efforts we now have daily images of a
>| freedom-focused flavour of Ubuntu, ?Gobuntu?.
> `----
>
> http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/130
>
>
> Ubuntu's Gibbon gets free
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Ubuntu's October release code-named "Gutsy Gibbon" will be available
>| in a new, free flavour, its founder Mark Shuttleworth said today.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| In an e-mail to Ubuntu developers, Shuttleworth said: "work will be done in
>| collaboration with the folks behind gNewsense". gNewsense is a Linux
>| distribution backed by the Free Software Foundation that removes all
>| non-free material from Ubuntu.
> `----
>
> http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Ubuntu-s-Gibbon-gets-free/0,339028227,339274828,00.htm
>
>
> gNewSense KDE 1.1 Screenshots 1024x768px
>
> http://shots.linuxquestions.org/?linux_distribution_sm=gNewSense%20KDE%201.1
>
>
> Press Release 20070122 - gNewSense 1.1 Released
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| I am pleased to announce the 1.1 release of the gNewSense
>| distribution and tools.
> `----
>
> http://www.gnewsense.org/Main/PressRelease20070122
>
>
> gNewSense KDE 1.1 Screenshots 1024x768px
>
> http://shots.linuxquestions.org/?linux_distribution_sm=gNewSense%20KDE%201.1
>
>
> GNewSense 1.0 Screenshot Walkthrough
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The Free Software Foundation has announced the inaugural stable
>| release of gNewSense, an Ubuntu-based distribution, modified to
>| include Free Software only...
> `----
>
> http://www.thecodingstudio.com/opensource/linux/?q=node/26
>
>
> gNewSense joins list of FSF-approved distros
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| However, gNewSense is also an important step toward its long-range
>| goal of persuading manufacturers to produce computers that run
>| completely free software, from the operating system and drivers
>| down to the BIOS. Buoyed by both the release of gNewSense and the
>| plans to use the LinuxBIOS in the One Laptop Per Child project,
>| Brown says, "We believe we're getting there slowly but surely.
>| We're getting to the point where maybe in 12 months we're going
>| to have those computers."
> `----
>
> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/08/193238
>
>
> From freedom to slavery; a week of two distros
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| While gNewSense enjoys its initial introduction as a fully free as in
>| freedom distribution, it seems at the same time an existing GNU/Linux
>| distribution has turned to slavery. Excuse me a moment, while I remove
>| the metaphorical knife from my back before continuing. Never before
>| has the contrast between software freedom and intellectual slavery
>| been more clear thanks to the proud efforts of gNewSense, and the
>| craven ones of Novell.
> `----
>
> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1851
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