> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > re all, > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:00:40PM +0200, Aymeric Mansoux wrote: >> hey everyone, >> thanks for all the comments! >> >> If you google a bit you'll see that Ubuntu as a base system is used >> by wide amount of distributions (not necesseraly ending with >> "buntu") and they all provide a different user experience and >> different default software selection, philosophy, etc. (for example >> gNewSense, Linux Mint, crunchbang...) > > would you consider making gNewSense a base for pure:dyne? > > that would be so cool, to continue the :dyne: tradition of a 100% free > system approved by the FSF, and to have one more happy rastaman on > Earth! :) >
...or quite a few unhappy people whose hw isn't working or can't do this or that. Of course its desirable to have 100% free software but is it feasible (that is without sacrificing a lot of important things people want to be able to do)? The point is again whether one want to reach out to a wider community than those who already know how to set things up and find their ways around GNU/Linux. For a lot of people the migration to using free software as their main tools is made a lot easier by the presence of the non-free bits, which arguably need to go but are useful at this point. Technically, such a remix is possible and quite easy to do. We could try and make one at some points to cater to those needs, but its definitely not priority at the moment. As afar I am concerned new users, a crtitical mass for the project and FLOSS in general is so important that its excusable to have bits of non-free stuff. That said, I feel that already gnaws on my conscience and thats probably a good sign :) Greetings, Karsten --- [email protected] irc.goto10.org #puredyne
