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Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense three years on
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Karl Goetz |
Subject: |
Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense three years on |
Date: |
Wed, 6 May 2009 11:34:40 +0930 |
On Tue, 05 May 2009 07:24:23 +0100
Paul O'Malley - gnu's not unix - <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> When we first started this thing in 5th May 2006 (three years ago) we
> thought we would only get enough attention to justify a couple of
> months effort and it would die from a lack of interest. It is with a
> great deal of pleasure I can say this did not happen.
It hasn't happened, and I like to think we have a stable enough
community that we should be able to keep building.
>
> Perhaps we are right when we think gNewSense has caused more people to
> focus on delivering Free as in Freedom software.
I like to think you'd be right on that.
> Certainly we caused some changes, SGI's GLX being the most prominent,
> we are very grateful to all involved be it my initial conversation
> with Peter Brown or the people in SGI, Red Hat, IBM , Xorg and others
> (you know who you are).
Definitely a big one. This had been open over 4 years in upstream BTSs
when the FSF announced the code had been freed.
> Along came mipssel and the longsoon and some people got very vocal and
> others got very involved. The shortest path to getting this to work
> was to fork the Debian mipssel.
And although not announced yet, there are ppc images being tested,
using the same upstream as mipsel.
> So where to now?
>
> Brian and I had a chat about this. We feel that we have brought this
> project as far as we can. We would like others to take the reigns.
> The primary concern to the person or people who want to take over is
> Software Freedom, pure and simple.
Guess I'll be fixing my SVN account then...
:)
>
> We have found the FSF staff very supportive since they got behind this
> project and sponsored space and bandwidth for the project. A big
> thanks to them all past and present.
Definitely. And for the quick help when servers/services need attention.
> Regards,
>
> Paul
Thanks for your work on gNewSense, and giving "us all" a distribution
to come to.
kk
>
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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian user / gNewSense contributor
http://www.kgoetz.id.au
No, I won't join your social networking group
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