gNewSense LiveCD 1.0
"A GNU/Linux project, to take all the binary blobs out of [Ubuntu] and make it all free. [...]
gNewSense is a free software GNU/Linux distribution created by two Irish free software advocates, Brian Brazil and Paul O'Malley, and is based on the Ubuntu and Debian distributions. The goal of gNewSense is to provide users with a software package that offers the stability of Ubuntu with the addition of freedom. [...]
gNewSense is derived from Ubuntu, and thus has most of the same functionality. There are a number of differences though.
* Firmware removed from kernel in main
* Restricted removed
* Ubuntu logos replaced
* Universe enabled by default
* emacs, bsdgames, nethack and build-essential part of the default install
Note our goal is to produce a fully free distribution, not to have as many features as possible. [...]
Our script to build the LiveCD is based off the Debian Live project. Initially we hoped to work off Ubuntu's scripts but all we could find were ways to alter and existing LiveCD, rather than generate one from scratch.
Essentially we do a cdebootstrap, install all the packages we need, create a squashfs, setup syslinux and make an ISO."
http://www.gnewsense.org/LiveCD/LiveCD
http://www.fsf.org/news/gnewsense
http://cdimage.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-livecd-1.0.iso.torrent
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