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Developer | Current: Matt Lee[1] former: Sam Geeraerts, K.Goetz, Brian Brazil and Paul O'Malley |
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OS family | Linux (Unix-like) |
Working state | discontinued[2] |
Initial release | November 2, 2006 |
Latest release | 4.0 ![]() |
Latest preview | 4.0 Alpha 1[4] / 2 December 2014[4] |
Repository | |
Update method | long term support |
Package manager | apt (standard), Synaptic (Gtk+ frontend), dpkg (low-level system) |
Platforms | amd64, i386, Loongson |
Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux) |
Userland | GNU |
Default user interface | GNOME |
License | FSDG |
Official website | www |
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]
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