On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:50 PM, sooraj kenoth <[email protected]>wrote:
> > >Its almost the same with default Ubuntu installation. > >Just add the libraries that you used for Ubuntu. It will do the trick. > > gNewSense takes a relatively strict stance against non-free software. For > example, any documentation that gives instructions on installing non-free > software is excluded. > > ref:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNewSense > > > >Just add any Ubuntu or Debian repo and you can have that all. > > if i chaged the repo, now i fear that i may lose the essence of gnewsense. > so i'm trying to use gnewsense making minimum changes. > > it may possible to change the repo completely; then we cannot call it as > gnewsense. > > > ref: > http://wiki.gnewsense.org/ForumMain/QuestionsAboutTheRelationWithUbuntu > > these are not my words: > > "If you want to use the gNewSense operating system, then I would NOT > recommend installing packages from any other version of Ubuntu, gNewSense, > or any other operating system. If you want a few of the newest software > applications that are not currently available in gNewSense, then installing > them in, for example, "/usr/local" is no problem. But to change the > repositories to point to a different operating system or version (or to even > just add a repository) would cause big big irreversible trouble. And by > "irreversible", I mean "it's time to reinstall the operating system!" :-P > This principle of not "mixing and matching" software repositories is true > for pretty much any GNU/Linux distribution. " If you are sticking onto freedom, its better you stick with the gnewsense repo. You 'll miss a lot of latest softwares and codecs. I have been using gnewsense with Debian repos, starting from when 2.0 version of it was out. Hasn't faced any "irreversible" problem in about two years... -- With regards, Tvm. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
