gNewSense 2.3 is out!
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| Version 2.3 of gNewSense, one of the the FSF-endorsed
| free GNU/Linux distributions, was released last
| month. Anyone interested in keeping pace with the
| latest improvements in free operating systems should
| check it out. It's based on Ubuntu, but without the
| non-free parts that Ubuntu includes by default, or
| suggests that you download.
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http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gnewsense-2.3
gNewSense 2.3 gets rid of mono programs
http://digg.com/linux_unix/gNewSense_2_3_gets_rid_of_mono_programs
New gNewSense release get rids of mono programs
http://slashdot.org/submission/1096043/New-gNewSense-release-get-rids-of-mono-programs
Submit your nominations for the 2009 Free Software Awards
http://www.fsf.org/news/2009FSAwardsCall
Recent:
gNewSense 2.3-deltah
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| gNewsenseâs strongest point is that when you
| install it you are running completely free
| software. It was very nice to see that Mono
| and subsequently f-spot, tomboy et al are
| absent from this distro.
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http://openbytes.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/gnewsense-2-3-deltah/
The H Gives Mono a Health Check
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| Next, it reinforces the point that Mr. de Icaza was totally serious back when
| he said that âGnome 4.0 should be based on .NETâ â thatâs exactly what he
| thought then, and exactly what he thinks now. Itâs dressed up a bit in
| pseudo-technical rhetoric, but the underlying desire is the same.
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http://mono-nono.com/2009/08/21/the-h-gives-mono-a-health-check/
Health Check: Mono - Too much monkey business?
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| This stance has been countered to some degree by Microsoft's Community
| Promise, but doubts remain as to what is actually covered, and de Icaza
| concedes as much. "In the next few months," he wrote, "we will be working
| towards splitting the jumbo Mono source code that includes ECMA + A lot more
| into two separate source code distributions. One will be ECMA, the other will
| contain our implementation of ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Winforms and others." In
| theory, the core components of Mono and the Mono development stack for Gnome
| are covered by the Community Promise. The elements that provide compatibility
| with Windows are not.
|
| From the beginning Mono has been beset by misunderstandings, misconceptions
| and political ineptitude, not least by Novell, de Icaza's employer, which
| allowed Microsoft to insert patent indemnification into its commercial
| agreement of 2006, souring its relationship with the free software community
| and giving Microsoft grounds for suggesting, without substantiation, that
| GNU/Linux and other free software infringed Microsoft patents - and by
| Microsoft's ongoing ambivalence towards free and open source software within
| its own halls.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/Health-Check-Mono--/features/114041/0
Pro-mono Zealotry
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| What this does illustrate, I think, is something that is already obvious to
| anyone that has been following the Mono controversy: there are people that
| are just as âextremeâ and unwilling to listen to reason as the most zealoty
| charactertures painted by the Broad Brush of the Most High and (Self)
| Righteous Community Gatekeepers.
|
| You can spot these people by the mindless regurgitation of other peopleâs
| talking points and the inability to make even the slightest concession to any
| opposing argument; the gleeful participation in any manner of attack or
| disinformation; the uncritical embrace of anyone or anything that supports
| thier position. A sure sign is charging the opposition with the very crimes
| they themselves are in the act of commiting.
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http://mono-nono.com/2009/07/30/pro-mono-zealotry/
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