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

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 11/3/06, Jonathan Carter <jonathan at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi Dennis
>
> On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 19:06 +0100, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> > > nuisance/nonsense/etc.
> >
> > It most definitely is not, I know one of the gNewSense creators quite
> > well and he's bery proud of the project.
>
> I'm also quite proud of it, it will make life much easier for downstream
> distributions who would like to base on Ubuntu, but keep it free from
> restricted code. I think it's great that the FSF supports an Ubuntu
> derivative :)

I currently using Ubuntu without the linux-restricted-modules package.
I don't need it. And I already have emacs, etc. installed. Aren't I
99% of the way there (other than the logos), or is there more to it
than that? Do they need to use a different kernel, for example?

-Eamonn