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Re: [gNewSense-users] Why not make a version of Debian GNU/Linux
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Bill Xu |
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Re: [gNewSense-users] Why not make a version of Debian GNU/Linux |
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Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:49:53 +0800 |
在 2007-01-11四的 15:51 +0200,Yoni Rabkin Katzenell写道:
> Max Moritz Sievers <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I don't see what's the effort here. If it were not the non-free firmware
> > in
> > Linux I guess I could do it myself in a few hours or at least a few days
> > (becuase I never build a distribution before). I am suggesting to use
> > Debian
> > GNU/Linux and just deliver only main. If there weren't the issues with
> > Linux
> > this way we would have everything we want (in this matter). They already
> > have
> > CD/DVD, (inofficial LiveCD/DVD), USB memory stick, boot up install,
> > automated
> > install. We also didn't have to set up our own mirror.
> >
> > Becuase of the non-free firmware in Linux we would have to build every
> > install
> > image ourselves. So maybe we wouldn't substitute everything at first. But I
> > guess we could get Debian developers to help us if we would make gNewSense
> > (or a new name) more a version of Debian GNU/Linux than a derived
> > distribution.
>
> I think I'll chime in here and try to get the message across as I
> understand it:
>
> The details don't matter. It does not matter if we are using
> whateverFox, Ubuntu/Debian/Gentoo or any of that.
>
> The main problem is, and always will be *actually doing
> it*.
>
> Suggestions, ideas and arguments have been going on for years and will
> never stop. The only thing that actually matters is producing a Free
> operating system for real, now, here, where people can use it. So the
> only way I see of making a point in this argument is to produce a
> real product, or to fix the product we have.
>
> We all have the correct ideas in our heads, but arguing over the type of
> distro as opposed to actually getting it out there is like arguing as to
> the type of bread to give hungry people instead of feeding them now with
> what you have at hand.
Yes, the most important is to produce an entirely free and popular OS,
then it can stop the arguments....
>
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Bill Xu <http://www.billxu.com>