[BadVista Advocate] Vista owners

[Michael Fötsch]

Mostafa Razavi wrote:
> Concerning gNewSense, and other FSF-approved distros, if anyone has 
> experiences working with them, please let us know about their advantages 
> and problems.

I'm using gNewSense exclusively. It's basically Ubuntu 6.06 with all the proprietary bits removed. (And those that aren't removed yet are on the gNewSense bug list.)

The advantage is that it's entirely free. I used Ubuntu before and I didn't install binary drivers there either, or use Sun Java, or Flash. I just wanted to see whether my hardware works if there are no binary blobs at all. The switch didn't make a huge difference for my daily work--everything that worked before still works; everything that didn't just continues not to work. ;-)

For me, there is no disadvantage, as I don't consider it a problem of gNewSense when web sites don't support free media formats, or when hardware vendors don't open up their specifications. I can't use the 3D capabilities of my nVidia graphics card, for example, but I couldn't do that with any other distro and keep a straight face while supporting free software.

Kind Regards,
M.F.





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