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Fork a kernel, kill an "OS" and revolutionize the desktop

The news of Con Kolivas, a Linux kernel developer, quitting that role, along with an interview in which he explains why, could and should make loud noises around the Free Software community which is often touting GNU/Linux as the best operating system one could use, and not just because of freedom you have with it. In the interview he says certain things which should cause tectonic shifts in the mindset that we have all been having. Why didn't we realize these things before?

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The sense of gNewSense

Submitted by libervisco on Tue, 2006-11-21 14:36. free software | gnewsense | gnu | linux

The latest distribution to be endorsed by the Free Software Foundation as a 100% Free Software distribution committed primarily to software freedom is gNewSense. It is based on Ubuntu Dapper and is because of that recognized as the most advanced pure Free Software distro, at least according to the FSF: