* Wouter Verhelst [Mon, 03 May 2004 01:19:48 +0200]:
> On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 09:15:01AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 May 2004 04:03, William Ballard <40414.nospam@comcast.net> wrote:
> > > software is sort of around Debian and RMS doesn't really like Debian
> > > very much anyway (he likes that little distro the little country near
> > > Spain puts out).
> > Which distro? Which country, Portugal? Morocco? Gibraltar?
> Andorra?
It's not a little country but a Spanish region/state called
Extremadura. The distro is called Linex, and is based on Debian.
About Stallman's preferences:
From <http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=260>:
RMS: When I recommend a GNU/Linux distribution, I choose based on
ethical considerations. Today I would recommend GNU/LinEx, the
distribution prepared by the government of Extremadura, because
that's the only installable distribution that consists entirely of
free software. If I knew of more than one such distribution, I would
choose between them based on practical considerations.
Update to the interview (appears as a footnote in the article):
1 RMS provided us with this update on GNU/LinEx: The developers told
me that GNU/LinEx included only free software, but after this
interview was published, people from GNU Spain and others have
checked it and found non-free programs in it. I therefore cannot
recommend GNU/LinEx at present. I hope that this problem will be
corrected. Meanwhile, once again there is no installable GNU/Linux
distribution that we can endorse; all of them include or recommend
non-free software.
--
Adeodato Simó
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Under capitalism, man exploits man.
Under communism, it's just the opposite.
-- J.K. Galbraith
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