Max Moritz Sievers wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder myself why gNewSense isn't directly derived from Debian GNU/Linux. I > don't see an advantage using Ubuntu Linux as the base. But there would be > advantages if gNewSense was a version of Debian GNU/Linux with only main and > the Firmware removed from Linux: > - not derived from a »Linux« I don't understand, my take on it is that all are derived from kernel.org. > - does not ship Firefox Being worked on here. > - much more install options (e.g. USB memory stick) Each version would cost us a lot of effort for time we have not got or won't expend as we have other things going on. > - much more supported platforms See last comment. > > I haven't performed an install of Ubuntu Linux yet but I have heard it were > more »user friendly« because of its improved hardware support and its nicer > graphics. As gNewSense has less hardware supported because of the removed > firmware the first argument doesn't fly. The second either as with etch > Debian GNU/Linux will have also a »graphical« installer. > It was actually none of the above, we started where we started _because_ Mark Shuttleworth and Richard Stallman went to Tunis, and spoke of something called gnubuntu - but neither of them meant the same thing. This mailing list and gNewSense itself were some of the results of the inspiration we got from that.
I say some when I refer to results, there are others like a lot of hours getting very familiar with a particular kernel, it has been fun. Could anyone do it? If they had the time and energy and disk space they could hack builder. Regards, Paul _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
