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

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 11/3/06, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 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

I stand corrected, sorry. I read one blog this morning that concluded
it was a hoax [1]. I looked around some more and he seems to be the
only one who thinks that.

[1] http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/

-Eamonn