在 2007-01-11四的 15:51 +0200，Yoni Rabkin Katzenell写道： > Max Moritz Sievers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't see what's the effort here. If it were not the non-free firmware > > in > > Linux I guess I could do it myself in a few hours or at least a few days > > (becuase I never build a distribution before). I am suggesting to use > > Debian > > GNU/Linux and just deliver only main. If there weren't the issues with > > Linux > > this way we would have everything we want (in this matter). They already > > have > > CD/DVD, (inofficial LiveCD/DVD), USB memory stick, boot up install, > > automated > > install. We also didn't have to set up our own mirror. > > > > Becuase of the non-free firmware in Linux we would have to build every > > install > > image ourselves. So maybe we wouldn't substitute everything at first. But I > > guess we could get Debian developers to help us if we would make gNewSense > > (or a new name) more a version of Debian GNU/Linux than a derived > > distribution. > > I think I'll chime in here and try to get the message across as I > understand it: > > The details don't matter. It does not matter if we are using > whateverFox, Ubuntu/Debian/Gentoo or any of that. > > The main problem is, and always will be *actually doing > it*. > > Suggestions, ideas and arguments have been going on for years and will > never stop. The only thing that actually matters is producing a Free > operating system for real, now, here, where people can use it. So the > only way I see of making a point in this argument is to produce a > real product, or to fix the product we have. > > We all have the correct ideas in our heads, but arguing over the type of > distro as opposed to actually getting it out there is like arguing as to > the type of bread to give hungry people instead of feeding them now with > what you have at hand. Yes, the most important is to produce an entirely free and popular OS, then it can stop the arguments....
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