Re: [gNewSense-users] Promoting gNewSense to GNU/Linux newbies

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Ringo Kamens wrote:
> I am in the same situation as you. I used to be a huge ubuntu fan (and 
> still suggest it for linux newbies) but I think ubuntu is not the 
> solution. We need truly open software and I would love to help promote 
> gnewsense but I don't feel it's ready yet. The main problem I see is 
> incompatibility with hardware. Are there any legal hurdles to writing 
> drivers or is it just time?
> Ringo Kamens

Ringo, people to write drivers is always in need not for gnewsense but 
for the whole free software community.
I will suggest joining a project for example the nvidia (noveau project 
) or ati free drivers to help them.. at the same time you help gnewsense 
with this.
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/

>  
> On 1/16/07, *Michael Fötsch* <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     On January 6, Brian Brazil wrote, in a thread titled "The name":
>
>     > For some reason I doubt many newcomers will be using this distro
>     > [gNewSense]
>
>     I don't think it has to be this way. Up to now, I used to hand out
>     Ubuntu CDs to anyone who asked me for an alternative to Windows (and
>     sometimes even to those who didn't ask ;-). I wouldn't hesitate to do
>     the same with gNewSense.
>
>     But maybe I'd also tell them to go to ubuntu.com
>     <http://ubuntu.com> for support, because
>     gnewsense.org <http://gnewsense.org> is still in need of (at
>     least) some polish. Just to give
>     you an example, when gnewsense.org <http://gnewsense.org> was
>     promoted as an alternative to
>     Windows Vista at badvista.org <http://badvista.org>, someone
>     commented saying (I'll
>     paraphrase), "you call this an alternative to Windows? I visited
>     the web
>     site and it says I need 35GB disk space for gNewSense." (A
>     misinterpretation of the Builder discussion, of course.)
>
>     This shows that the web site is not accessible to (potential)
>     GNU/Linux
>     newbies yet, although gNewSense itself has real potential, being
>     user-friendly and offering practical advantages, and at the same time
>     having "plenty of freedom talk too" (as RMS said in an essay).
>
>     And I'd like to contribute in order to change this.
>
>     I'm thinking about having material to showcase gNewSense's
>     capabilities
>     (many people wrongly assume that it's as ugly as the web site; my
>     apologies to the designer of the site! :-); to rebut GNU/Linux
>     myths; to
>     offer help with switching from Windows or the Mac; to provide
>     pointers
>     to the free software philosophy; etc.
>
>     But before I start writing material, I'd like to hear your opinions:
>     * Do you think the time would be well spent?
>     * How should we go about this, technically?
>     * Who'd like to help me?
>     * Any opinions welcome
>
>     Kind Regards,
>     M.F.
>
>
>
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