[clue-tech] Fedora 11 released

[Peter Kuykendall]

>Fedora is among the purest, the most committed to Freedom of all the
popular distributions.

I'm very glad to see this; thanks for posting it.  I was amazed to find
out that the kernel is chock full of nonfree code, in direct violation
of the GPL, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of interest in fixing
this upstream.  So I downloaded a Gnewsense VM
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnewsense) and have been pretty impressed.
Of course, the VM works well despite being crippled by lack of nonfree
wireless, etc. because it depends on those services being available in
the host, which in my case is a very nonfree corporate XP laptop.  But
it's refreshing to see that there are real efforts to create truly free
distros, even to the point of excising nonfree code from the kernel.
And it is possible to buy wireless cards and dongles that can be driven
by free code.

>From Wikipedia:

"gNewSense is a GNU/Linux operating system that uses free software.[2]
gNewSense is based on Ubuntu.[2] It tries to maintain the
user-friendliness of Ubuntu but with the non-free software and binary
blobs removed. The Free Software Foundation considers gNewSense to be a
free operating system.[3]

gNewSense takes a strict stance against non-free software. For example,
any documentation that gives instructions on installing non-free
software is excluded.[4]

The project was launched by Brian Brazil and Paul O'Malley in 2006. In
October 2006, after the 0.85 release,[5] it was given assistance by the
Free Software Foundation.[6]"

- Pete
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