Dr. Matt Lee (mattl)

Web standards, accessibility, free/open source software, old UNIX/TV/Music and occasional wargaming

Gobuntu - maybe not a stooge distro after all? (2007)

Gobuntu is an upcoming official derivative of the Ubuntu operating system, aiming to provide a distribution consisting entirely of free software.You can try it out, as well:- http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/gobuntu/daily/current/Yesterday someone asked me why gNewSense doesn’t use Launchpad. Simple! Launchpad is not free software. When it is, I suspect the gNewSense developers will use it in some form. Maybe if the software is good enough, we will run a Launchpad installation for the GNU project,

How Stallman operates his computer (2007)

1. I use gNewSense, a GNU/Linux distro. I chose that distro because it has the policy of rejecting non-free software. There are two other installable distros that are entirely free: Ututo and BLAG. The FSF sysadmins prefer to maintain gNewSense because it is familiar to them, being similar to Debian, which is what we used to use. 2. I occasionally use GNOME for tasks that need graphics, but mostly I use a text console. 3. I spend most of my time editing in Emacs. I read and send mail with Ema