Hello Sam,
since I can guess that you are busy a lot I am thankful for your reply. You
answered all the questions that I have for now. I am glad that the project
is still vital. I am sure that I will be able to figure out solutions for
the technical problems - maybe with the help of others.
I will also check out the Libre Planet and related projects to get in touch
with people.
Thanks again for your mail!
Greetings, Patrick.


On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Sam Geeraerts <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Op Tue, 30 Dec 2014 11:53:17 +0100
> schreef Patrick Frank <[email protected]>:
>
> > Hello,
> > when I saw the talk of Richard Stallman at the Chaos Communication
> > Congress yesterday I felt inspired to try to change my habits as user
> > of the GNU/Linux operating system towards a more free approach in
> > computing. The first thing that I have observed is that the community
> > on IRC and mailing lists is very much silent.
>
> My IRC activity has been quite low due to lack of time. I do try to
> answer questions that come up on the mailing lists. Some people contact
> me directly instead of using the mailing lists. That doesn't help to
> build the community much, but I respect their choice.
>
> > Another aspect that started to worry me is the aging of packages. As
> > user I am not only restricted to free packages only which cuts out
> > quite a few useful tools but they are based on a Debian release from
> > May 2013 and the current alpha version will be based on that branch
> > too when I am not mistaken.
> > Is the project still vital at all?
>
> The 2 main factors causing the lag are lack of time and support for
> mipsel (Lemote Yeeloong). Newer versions of packages would be nice, but
> I want to finish the Wheezy based release so as to not throw away the
> work so far and to provide an upgrade path from Parkes.
>
> > Where do gnewsense users meet these days to be social?
>
> That should be the gnewsense-users mailing list and #gnewsense.
>
> > What are the main release goals for gnewsense 4.0?
>
> To have a free stable secure OS supporting x86 and mipsel.
>
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