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GNewSense — GNU's completely free version of Ubuntu (no proprietary binary blobs)

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Post by pius » Sat, Oct 04, 2008, 8:50 PM UTC

GNewSense — GNU's completely free version of Ubuntu (no proprietary binary blobs)
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Re: GNewSense — GNU's completely free version of Ubuntu (no proprietary binary blobs)

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Post by apgwoz » Sun, Oct 05, 2008, 12:47 AM UTC

This isn't actually a FSF project, but they do however provide assistance and hardware. Obviously, they are very interested in it, given it's stance on the no "non-free" software issue.

Re: GNewSense — GNU's completely free version of Ubuntu (no proprietary binary blobs)

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Post by pius » Sun, Oct 05, 2008, 1:29 AM UTC

apgwoz wrote: post #2

This isn't actually a FSF project, but they do however provide assistance and hardware. Obviously, they are very interested in it, given it's stance on the no "non-free" software issue.

You're right, I wish I could correct the headline.

Re: GNewSense — GNU's completely free version of Ubuntu (no proprietary binary blobs)

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Post by SwellJoe » Sun, Oct 05, 2008, 1:31 AM UTC

So, given that Fedora (and RHEL, for that matter) has always had a policy of no non-free components, and it's easier than trivial to install a Debian system with no non-free components (just don't enable the non-free repositories)...what is this for?