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Re: [News] Screenshots Tour of Gobuntu (Truly Free like gNewSense) Linux Installation

  • Subject: Re: [News] Screenshots Tour of Gobuntu (Truly Free like gNewSense) Linux Installation
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:37:21 +0100
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-Gobuntu-7-10-59788.shtml

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| This is a call for developers who are interested in pushing the
| limits of content and code freedom - including firmware, content,
| and authoring infrastructure, to join the team and help identify
| places where we must separate out pieces that don’t belong in
| Gobuntu from the standard Ubuntu builds.
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They should start by eliminating Mono, which they still ship:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/gobuntu/daily/current/source/gutsy-src-1.list

Along with it's tainted dependants, such as Novell's Beagle.

They should also replace Firefox and Thunderbird with Debian's Iceweasel
and Icedove respectively, to avoid Mozilla's draconian trademark
restrictions.

There's probably others too, that's just what I spotted casually.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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| "Computer games don’t affect kids, I mean if Pac man affected us as
| kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills
| and listening to repetitive music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo
`----

Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) on sky, running kernel 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7
 20:35:39 up 13 days, 19:30,  3 users,  load average: 0.43, 0.56, 0.44

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