Hi Andrei, thanks for introducing yourself. It's always good for the gNewSense community to gain new members, and it's good for the free software movement in general. I haven't really used the IRC channel, I just use this list when I want to say something. I'm from the UK if that helps. I don't think the Ubuntu community are too supportive of gNewSense, if they even have any idea what it is. I think most of them only support the open source movement, if they've even read about that. A large amount of them seem to just use 'Linux' because it's free as in beer, or to just avoid using Windows. I think the Ubuntu forums can be useful for support with gNewSense though, as long as you pretend you're using plain Ubuntu.
Guy andrei raevsky wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I just wanted to say hello to everybody, introduce myself, and ask > when/if guys use the #gNewSense IRC. I 'stopped by' a couple of times > and there was a peaceful silence and little more. It was during the > evening of the US Eastern Time (I live in Florida). Are most of you > in Europe (where I originally come from), Africa or Asia or is the > gNewSense community still really that small? ;-) > > Either way - the gNewSense community is getting a new member with me > this afternoon as I am about to make a HD install of gNewSense on my > main computer. > > A couple of words about myself: I am a happy Debian-Sarge user, but I > also tried the Debian-Sid-based Kanotix distro for my main computer > but this distro seems pretty much dead right now. So I needed to > switch and gNewSense came out. Since I fully support the values > behind gNewSense and since I wrote a short review of it for > distrowatch (http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070108#reviews) > and I will now make it my main distro. > > I wonder how the Ubuntu/Debian people view gNewSense, as a subsegment > of Ubuntu/Debian, or as a fork alien to its origin? I tried the > Ubuntu IRC and they seemed to be somewhat less than enthusiastic about > gNewSense :-( Either way - I think that gNewSense is a fanstastic > idea and I very much believe in its future. > > Cheers, > > Andrei > > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > -- Please avoid sending me Microsoft Office files - see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html. Don't get Windows Vista, get GNU/Linux - see http://www.getgnulinux.org. _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
