GNewSense

gNewSense
gNewSense 4.0
DeveloperCurrent: Matt Lee[1]
former: Sam Geeraerts, K.Goetz, Brian Brazil and Paul O'Malley
OS familyLinux (Unix-like)
Working statediscontinued[2]
Initial releaseNovember 2, 2006 (2006-11-02)
Latest release4.0 Edit this on Wikidata[3] / 2 May 2016 (2 May 2016)
Latest preview4.0 Alpha 1[4] / 2 December 2014 (2014-12-02)[4]
Repository
Update methodlong term support
Package managerapt (standard), Synaptic (Gtk+ frontend), dpkg (low-level system)
Platformsamd64, i386, Loongson
Kernel typeMonolithic (Linux)
UserlandGNU
Default
user interface
GNOME
LicenseFSDG
Official websitewww.gnewsense.org
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gNewSense was a Linux distribution, active from 2006 to 2016. It was based on Debian, and developed with sponsorship from the Free Software Foundation. Its goal was user-friendliness, but with all proprietary (e.g. binary blobs) and non-free software removed. The Free Software Foundation considered gNewSense to be composed entirely of free software.[5][6]

gNewSense took a relatively strict stance against proprietary software. For example, any documentation that gave instructions on installing proprietary software was excluded.[7]

gNewSense's last release was made in 2016 and it has not had a supported version since 2018. DistroWatch classifies gNewSense as "discontinued".[2]

  1. ^ Lee, Matt. "Next Steps for gNewSense". www.gnewsense.org. Archived from the original on 12 August 2019.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Distrowatch was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "[gNewSense-users] gNewSense 4.0 released". Lists.nongnu.org. 2 May 2016. Archived from the original on 1 August 2020. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  4. ^ a b "Ucclia alpha 1". gNewSense-dev mailing list. Archived from the original on 10 December 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  5. ^ "List of Free GNU/Linux Distributions - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation". Gnu.org. Archived from the original on 14 December 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
  6. ^ Lee, Matt (2019). "gNewSense". www.gnewsense.org. Archived from the original on 12 August 2019. Retrieved 5 October 2019. Hello, I'm Matt Lee, I've recently taken over maintaining gNewSense from Sam [..] I'm Matt Lee: former FSF campaigns manager, [..] I have a vision for desktop GNU/Linux that is unfulfilled.
  7. ^ "Community guidelines – gNewSense GNU/Linux". Wiki.gnewsense.org. 30 April 2010. Archived from the original on 2 September 2011. Retrieved 2 July 2011.

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