Everybody is so touchy these days (including my illustrious self), lol.
By apolitical, I meant that Uruk would not be dismissed as a curiosity or be offensive to any brand new free software user, regardless of their nationality or political beliefs.
As far as libre politics, it is downstream from Ubuntu 16.04 and uses the same init system. It is 100% Libre. I would trust the developers to keep it that way. It is way too new to be certified by the FSF already, but that would not bother me. I was trying to communicate my own trust in these developers to someone who did not know them.
I also noticed that it seemed to load faster than the alpha release of Belenos that I burned the same day, right before the current beta release became available. It could have been a bad DVD or any number of things that has nothing to do with the actual .iso, but since I was giving several different live DVDs to a person who would probably be running live for quite awhile rather than installing right away, that was also a plus to me.
The desktop was not vanilla Mate, but was customized for ease of use in such a way that it would be helpful to anyone with vision issues, but also anyone unfamiliar with standard Gnu/Linux desktop environments.
My first impression was extremely positive. I look forward to having a second impression and being able to say more. I was using the 32 bit .iso on my most powerful 64 bit capable laptop and did not have time to test it on my older hardware. I look forward to doing so in the future.
