[GNU/FSF Press] Press release: FSF announces release of gNewSense 1.0

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Fri, 03 Nov 2006, Eamonn Sullivan wrote:

> On 11/3/06, F. Rodriguez <mailinglists at fabianrodriguez.com> wrote:
> > ----- Forwarded message from Peter Brown <peterb at fsf.org> -----
> >
> > From: Peter Brown <peterb at fsf.org>
> > Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 06:37:03 -0500
> > To: info-press at gnu.org
> > Subject: [GNU/FSF Press] Press release: FSF announces release of
> > gNewSense 1.0
> >
> > BOSTON, November 2, 2006 - Free Software Foundation announces release of
> > gNewSense version 1.0.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> I'm pretty sure this is a hoax/joke: gNewSense = nuisance/nonsense/etc.
> 
> -Eamonn


I didn't know about that project until Richard Stallman mentionned it during
an interview on the Linux Link Tech Show  podcast on
Wednesday night. (http://tllts.org/)


My understanding is that it is based on Dapper.  According to their web site:

>   * Firmware removed from kernel in main
>   * Restricted removed
>   * Ubuntu logos replaced
>   * Universe enabled by default
>   * emacs, bsdgames, nethack and build-essential part of the default install 
 (http://www.gnewsense.org/Main/Features)


Doesn't look like a hoax/joke to me, but something that fills a need with some
users (as seen in the gnubuntu discussion we had many months ago on one
of the Ubuntu mailing lists (can't remember which one...but it was the thread where
Mark mentionned the possibility of a http://gnubuntu.org)

Daniel