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Karl Goetz <karl@kgoetz.id.au> GNU Hackers Meetup, Den Haag 2010-07-25T14:00 Where is the name from? pub 1024D/135EA668 2001-03-05 uid Richard Stallman (Chief GNUisance) <rms@gnu.org> sig sig3 135EA668 2001-03-05 __________

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Karl Goetz <karl@kgoetz.id.au> GNU Hackers Meetup, Den Haag 2010-07-25T14:00

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pub 1024D/135EA668 2001-03-05 uid Richard Stallman (Chief GNUisance) <rms@gnu.org> sig sig3 135EA668 2001-03-05 __________ __________ [selfsig] sig sig3 135EA668 2001-03-05 __________ __________ [selfsig] [...trim...] http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x624DC565135EA668

Where is the name from?

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A brief history of gNewSense

  • Started by two Irish Free Software advocates
  • FSF support started at 0.92
  • First major release in 2006
  • Second major release 2008
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Free?

  • We do FSF free
  • Not Debian free
  • Not Fedora free
  • Not someone elses free
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Why Ubuntu?

  • Paul was an Ubuntu member
  • User friendly
  • Broad public
  • Came out of a discussion by RMS and SABDFL

about creating a free distribution (an idea which was shelved)

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gNewSense Builder

  • Over 3000 lines of bash
  • Downloads upstream packages, mangles them

and spits out modified versions

  • Allows basic customisation
  • Does /not/ do clean package modification – just

bashes them into shape.

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We currently modify around 50 packages, and remove

  • ver 50 (over 70 in our current development branch)

What do we change?

  • OpenGL/mesa
  • GNU documentation
  • Firefox (Burning dog)
  • Sourceless firmware
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gNewSense releases

  • Releases (so far)
  • 0.9x deltad (Ubuntu 6.06 LTS based, betas)
  • 1.x deltad (Ubuntu 6.06 LTS based)
  • 2.x deltah (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS based)
  • Releases (unreleased)
  • 3.x metad (lenny, never to be released)
  • 3.x parkes (squeeze, release when we can)
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Going forward

  • Debian Squeeze
  • Lemote Yeeloong
  • Having a preference for GNU software (starting

at gNS 3.1+)

  • The world?
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References

  • GNU
  • http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
  • http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-

distribution-guidelines.html

  • http://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html
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References (cont)

  • FSF
  • http://groups.fsf.org/wiki?title=NONFSDG
  • (List of software that does not respect the Free

System Distribution Guidelines)

  • gNewSense
  • http://www.gnewsense.org
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Questions