Re: why wasn't gNewSense based on Debian?

[Karl Goetz <kamping_kaiser@internode.on.net>]

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> Hi,
> Anyone know why the very free distro wasn't based on Debian? Is it
hello.
Here [1] is the reply given by Paul O'Malley on the gNewSense users 
list. Its short though, so you may want to check out the wiki as well.
> that much easier to create a new distro that is based on Ubuntu
> instead of Debian? Doesn't Ubuntu kernel contain non-free firmware?
Yes the ubuntu kernel does, but so does debians.
>
[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-users/2006-11/msg00378.html
kk

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Karl Goetz
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Australian Ubuntu users team - http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam