Re: Fluxbox in gnewsense

Unlike Ubuntu, gnewsense is a _completely_ free operating system.
Ubuntu's repositories contain software laden with patent issues as
well as binary blobs. The kernel in Ubuntu contains binary segments
for driver support that you can't view the source code of. Period.
Neither Debian nor Ubuntu are fully free. Ubuntu installs non-free
software by default. Debian provides non-free software through its
repositories and includes non-free kernel drivers.

For specific examples, see:
http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_002
http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_007

Comrade Ringo Kamens

On 5/2/07, Peter N Spotts <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 22:56 -0400, Ringo Kamens wrote:
> > Is anybody interested in helping me maintain a fluxbox-desktop package
> > similar to those used by gnome and kde to help customize the gnewsense
> > experience? I would love to help bring fluxbox to people but I can't
> > do it by myself. Gnewsense is an ubuntu-based distro with all the
> > non-free-as-in-freedom parts and binary blobs removed.
> > Any volunteers appreciated,
> > Comrade Ringo Kamens
>
> Just out of curiosity, how would this differ from Fluxbuntu?
>
> http://fluxbuntu.org/
>
> Pete
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