Thank you Majin :) also thanks for gNewSense pointer. I'll be looking at
there too.
As for Debian vs. Ubuntu, I didn't mean to favor being leading edge over
stability or freeness, just wanted to point out that there is a possibility
of being both LTS and rolling distro at the same time. I'll revisit this in
its own thread sometime, and hopefully make a better case of it than the
short preliminary intro.
The link you've given re (2) goes along with my toughts about the burden of
being "unique" and being DFSG bound. BTW I didn't know FSF supported a blobby
BIOS. I hope they would extend this exception to the kernel. I'm all against
proprietary hardware, but hardware is hardware, and firmware blobs are in
hardware domain. To condemn an OS for something that is out its domain (for
uploading the firmware) seems to me as stretching the definiton of "free
software" a bit too far.
