GNewSense
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- The correct title of this article is gNewSense. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
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| Website: | http://www.gnewsense.org/ |
| Company/ developer: |
Bbrazil and Ompaul |
| OS family: | GNU/Linux |
| Source model: | Free Software |
| Latest stable release: | 1.0 / November 2, 2006 |
| Update method: | APT |
| Package manager: | dpkg |
| Supported platforms: | i386 |
| Kernel type: | Monolithic kernel |
| Default user interface: | GNOME |
| License: | Free software licenses |
| Working state: | Current |
gNewSense (originally called Gnusiance, gnubuntu or Ubuntu-libre) is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Ubuntu aiming to provide a 100% free software distribution. It was designed for users who wish to only use free software, that is: software that is freely usable, modifiable, and distributable without major licensing restrictions. It is officially supported by the Free Software Foundation. Version 1.0 was released on November 2, 2006.
Despite being based on Ubuntu it has many differences:
- Non-free firmware removed from the Linux kernel
- Non-free software repositories are not available by default - such as Ubuntu's "restricted" and "multiverse" repositories
- The "Universe" package repository is enabled by default
- Software development tools (gcc, make etc.) part of the default installation
- bsdgames, nethack and GNU Emacs are installed by default
- build-essential installed by default
gNewSense is available only for the Intel 386 platform, and as with other Ubuntu distributions is installed from a LiveCD. The removal of non-free firmware from the kernel means that some devices such as certain wifi cards will not work as there are no Free Software alternatives available.
[edit] External links
- gNewSense website
- FSF announces release of gNewSense 1.0
- Mark Shuttleworth talking about gnubuntu (ubuntu-devel mailing list, Thu 24 Nov 2005)
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