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

Alexander Jacob Tsykin stsykin at gmail.com
Sat Nov 4 02:37:43 GMT 2006


On Saturday 04 November 2006 08:30, Toby Smithe wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Yeah... I don't think I had any non-free software installed by default.
> And I only can if I choose to. Everything I have installed has source
> code available.
Unless you remove the firmware from restricted, and anything else which comes 
from there, it is not technically fully free. They would have source 
packages, but you would find that those "source" package do not contain the 
source code.

Sasha



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