Ciarán's free software notes

Friends in Ireland have been working for a while now on making a 100% free software GNU+Linux distro.

The idea of making fully free distros seems to have started with UTUTO-e. Soon after, there was talk of Canonical working on "GNUbuntu", but the rumour didn't materialise and a parallel non-Canonical project began. That was later named "gNewSense", and it hit version one-dot-oh today.

The project website is at:
http://www.gnewsense.org/

And today's press release is at:
http://www.fsf.org/news/gnewsense

As mentioned previously, they're looking for more developer help, and also reviewers, documenters, and users. Do take a look.

Screenshots are here:

• Loginscreen
• Splashscreen
• Desktop
• Logo

I wrote an editorial for kerneltrap.org:

• Linux: GPLv3, DRM, and Exceptions

It's an attempt at a review of where we are with regards to what GPLv3 will say about DRM, and what options are open for the Linux kernel developers.

NOTE: my RSS feed is working again with live bookmarks.

UPDATE: Discussion of this article is taking place on these sites:

• LWN.net
• LinuxDevices.com
• Technocrat.net