> I > expected a huge fight to move to a pure free distro. It took less then > 20 minutes of work to: [...]
I had similar expectations with free distros, this changed after using gNewSense on a Lemote YeeLoong (my only problem with Trisquel installation on an AMD64 machine was a scratched CD). > This was too easy! When we move to a libre kernel do we just lose eye > candy like flash and some device drivers? is the kernel 99.9% > identical? Trisquel kernels differ from Ubuntu kernels mostly by not naming nonfree firmware requested by non-libre kernels and not including some code to load it (with some drivers needing it disabled). When not having devices needing this nonfree firmware, there aren't very noticeable differences. Flash is unrelated to the kernel. For some significant uses of it there are working free alternatives (like Gnash or very many video-playing programs) and adverts using it aren't needed. > gNewSense has been around since 2006, why don't they support 64 bit, > your(now were)the new kid on the block and support it? Current gNewSense release is based on an old Ubuntu release. Debian-based gNewSense 3 doesn't have installable media and some important packages yet, but otherwise supports AMD64 (and MIPS with 64-bit Loongson CPUs).
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