gnubuntu [was: Re: Recent Security vulnerability in Skype]

On do, 2005-11-24 at 10:18 +0000, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> 
> >which comes back to an old minor pet peeve of mine:  in my mind
> >restricted should only be enabled for Ubuntu installations that need
> >it for specific hardware.  (I suspect it is not easy from a technology
> >point of view; if it was, I guess it would have been done  a long time
> >ago).
> >  
> >
> We've registered "gnubuntu.org" for an ideologically-pure derivative.
> 
Great!
> If anyone is keen to work on that, please let me know. It would require
> some knowledge of the core tools of managing a derivative. The Ututo
> guys may or may not be interested in helping out - they already work on
> a core that is FSF-blessed, so this might save them a lot of work.

Three questions:

1) Will this be a really big effort, or is it just replacing the artwork
and changing the documentation?
2) Will it be possible to run the unstable version? Will it take very
long for new packages to go to Debian, then Ubuntu, then Gnubuntu?
3) GNUbuntu vs Gnubuntu?