linux

Ultra-free gNewSense 2.0 beta released

Brian Brazil and the team behind the ultra-free gNewSense Linux distribution have released a beta of the forthcoming 2.0 (or Deltah) series. gNewSense is based on Ubuntu but strips the distribution of non-free components to provide users with a truly free operating system. gNewSense is backed by the Free Software Foundation. Among the changes in this release are that gNewSense is now based on Ubuntu Hardy released

last week; the distribution has new artwork; the browser has been changed from Firefox to Epi

phany, the Gnome browser; non-free GLX has been removed from X/mesa; and there is now support for Debian source packages.

gNewSense can be downloaded here or here (torrent).

gNewSense is derived from Ubuntu, and thus has most of the same functionality. There are a number of differences though.