FSF Publish New List Of Truly Free Linux Distributions
Whoever thought that Debian, Ubuntu or Fedora consist solely of free software would be wrong. The new list compiled by the Free Software Foundation showing truly free distributions has a mere nine entries.
Amongst the distributions classified by the Foundation as genuinely free are not the big names that most of us would expect to find. Top of the list is the FSF sponsored gNewSense, a derivative of Debian and Ubuntu, that uses 100% free software. In the latest release, gNewSense 2.3, the developers have, for example, removed the mono programs Tomboy and F-Spot and replaced them with gNotes and gThumb.
Also included on the list are Ututo, Dragora, Dynebolic, Musix GNU+Linux, BLAG, Trisquel, Venenux and Kongoni, the South African distro that finds itself on the list of totally free software for the first time.
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Is less really more?
I'd rather see a distribution that makes it easy to choose whether you want it to be 100% free, something like Gentoo's glep 23: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0023.html
It was not implemented yet last time I checked.
Or give us at least some kind of warning when you want to install proprietary software.
I really do want to be able to choose what I install on my box and not delegate that choice to integrists even though I am very close to being an integrist myself, but the difference is that I apply my integrism on myself alone and not onto others.
Momo
Why the mono bashing
Not quite...
RE: Pointless
Wouldn't hardware compatibility just be (largely) dependant on what kernel version said distro runs, too?
Pointless