Comments

• Shane Coyle

  2008-05-31 17:04:18

  Downloaded the GNewSense Live CD last night, and am very impressed. I had no hardware problems at all on my desktop (a few year old homebrew machine), haven't tried the laptop yet but I know that won't go well.
  
  I even tried to play a naughty file format, and just like ubuntu did once upon a time, I was presented a dialog explaining that codecs were required and their potential liabilities, then it offered to install them and then played my song (all on the live CD session).
  
  Actually clearing space from that desktop machine now to install DeltaH permanently, and then some space to fiddle around with Builder and see what I can teach myself now.
  
  Even if you just want to see what hardware is supported by current Free Software and not, the DeltaH Live CD is worth the download. It's truly impressive what a completely Free desktop can be; given the right hardware combinations, of course.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-05-31 17:10:16

  ...These are also sold along with preinstalled/bundle PCs now. If people want to support the cause (voluntary labour) of gNewSense, here is where you ought to go:
  
  LAC Now Shipping gNewSense 2.0 Systems (1 May 2008)
  
  "gNewSense DeltaH was released today, and we are pleased to offer preconfigured Workstations, Portable Systems, ThinkCentres, Laptops, and Servers, as well as fully customized Core 2 Duo, Athlon 64, Xeon, and Opteron computers, preinstalled with the latest gNewSense GNU/Linux operating system. gNewSense is a GNU/Linux distribution that is listed as free by the GNU Project."
  
  I'm not entirely sure if Joshua Gay is somehow behind the push for it.

• Shane Coyle

  2008-05-31 19:39:54

  All backed up and installed, working on the create your own distro tutorial now- I'm just not a Gnome person (not trying to start a flame war, just I like KDE).
  
  One thing I will note, since it comes up here often, is that Tomboy is in here and I believe it is a C#/Mono app, no? So, I'll assume that Mono is in here, and gNewSense is an FSF-approved distro.
  
  Says something for the Mono project in terms of exposure to liability if the FSF is giving it the thumbs up for distribution, no?

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-05-31 21:07:42

  I'm not sure about gNewSense, but watch Gobuntu.
  
  http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/16/mono-cleanup/

• Shane Coyle

  2008-05-31 21:44:22

  Well, I thought that Mark Shuttleworth was giving up on Gobuntu, or did that change? I can't ever keep up with all of this stuff.
  
  Anyhow, in a few days of tinkering I'll have created my 'fork' with KDE4.1 beta 1 as the default DE. somehow.
  
  And, I don't use beagle or tomboy, so no Mono for me anyway. Always loved that about Gentoo, just USE="-gnome -mono" and that was all.
  
  I have KDE4 on here, just a few clicks, but it isn't the new 4.00.80 or whatever that new release is, which I want to try.
  
  I was thinking of calling it FOSSForUs, because in the config file I have to call 'my' distro something. Shanix seems cheesy...

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-06-01 03:48:03

  Well, there's Schillix for Jörg Schilling.