Is adding or subtracting easier?
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Most free operating systems achieve their freedom by subtracting the bad stuff from non-free operating systems. Is that simpler than adding stuff to Dragora to make it easy to use?
I think this is a really good question. In the future the amount of stuff to remove probably grows.
On the other hand there are the 40,000 deb packages in the repos and the wonderful package management system in place.
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Hopefully, one day, Debian will be fully free and fsf-endorsed. They're pretty close now, imo. Then this will be moot.
I wonder what that would mean for Trisquel. There would still be a demand, I think, for something that is based on Ubuntu and updated more frequently than Debian, but imo it would spell doom for gNewSense.
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On 17/08/13 05:44, lloyd wrote:
> I wonder what that would mean for Trisquel. There would still be a
> demand, I think, for something that is based on Ubuntu and updated
> more frequently than Debian, but imo it would spell doom for
> gNewSense.
Karl Goetz, the former lead gNewSense developer is also a Debian
developer, IIRC. If anything, I think it would be nice if gNewSense no
longer had a purpose, if gNewSense didn't have any patches to apply to
Debian anymore. Because then the role of gNewSense would be filled by
Debian, a much larger project.
> Hopefully, one day, Debian will be fully free and fsf-endorsed.
> They're pretty close now, imo. Then this will be moot.
There are still some finer points to be covered in freeing Debian
completely. gNewSense will have a purpose for at least a few years IMHO.
Andrew.
I think there will always be room for every distro, because each person wants a different thing, and so, each distro will still call its own group of users.
BUT, I agree, adding things to Dragora would probably be the right choice.
I still would love to have a GNU distro that had like main goal "usability with security". Debian is secure, but you have to stick with old solutions, Trisquel gives you a modern OS with free software only, but you have not a lot of security... And Dragora... well, I wonder how safe is it? =S
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