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A long thread at LXer about whether or not Debian should include unsourced binary blobs in its kernel had some commenters if not exactly singing the praises of totally free GNU/Linux distro gNewSense, then at least humming those praises.
The point was that if you really are bugged by blobs in the kernel, you should put your geek-boy money where your mouth is, eschew "compromising" distros such as Debian and Ubuntu, and instead use the Ubuntu-derived, blob-free, Free Software Foundation-approved gNewSense.
The question of the moment for gNewSense, as it is for any Linux distribution (or GNU/Linux ... since we're in FSF/RMS territory here) or BSD OS is, "Will my hardware work?"
Continue reading This is not a review of gNewSense.
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Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér on This is not a review of gNewSense: I seem to remember seeing some Broadcom things in the kernel? I believ ...
ric storms on This is not a review of gNewSense: Another distro to consider in this same vein is BLAG. Its a Fedora bas ...