gNewSense
Sign in to savegNewSense was a Linux distribution, active from 2006 to 2016. It was based on Debian, and developed with sponsorship from the Free Software Foundation. Its goal was user-friendliness, but with all proprietary (e.g. binary blobs) and non-free software removed. The Free Software Foundation considered gNewSense to be composed entirely of free software.
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Vinony's link graph records 319 inbound references to gNewSense, and connects out to Ubuntu, Arch Linux and Knoppix.
Vinony files it under 2006 software, Debian-based distributions and Free software only Linux distributions.
Vinony links it to 26 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- OS.name
- gNewSense
- OS.logo
- 125px
- OS.screenshot
- GNew Sense 4.0 desktop.png
- OS.caption
- gNewSense 4.0
- OS.developer
- Current: Matt Leeformer: Sam Geeraerts, K.Goetz, Brian Brazil and Paul O'Malley
- OS.family
- Linux (Unix-like)
- OS.userland
- GNU
- OS.ui
- GNOME
- OS.license
- FSDG
- OS.latest_preview_version
- 4.0 Alpha 1
- OS.kernel_type
- Monolithic (Linux)
- OS.working_state
- discontinued
- OS.supported_platforms
- amd64, i386, Loongson
- OS.updatemodel
- long term support
- OS.package_manager
- apt (standard), Synaptic (Gtk+ frontend), dpkg (low-level system)
- OS.date
- July 2014
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Linux distribution
- Subclass of
- GNU/Linux
- Based on
- Debian
- Movement
- free software movement
- Platform
- x86
- Official website
- www.gnewsense.org
- Image
- GNewSense screenshot.png
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- Commons category
- GNewSense
- inception
- 2006-00-00
- software version identifier
- 4.0
- IRC channel URL
- irc://irc.freenode.org/gnewsense-dev
- source code repository URL
- bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/gnewsense
- issue tracker URL
- savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=gnewsense
- Commons gallery
- GNewSense
- copyright license
- GNU General Public License
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Technical aspects
- Installation
- Versions
- Comparison with other distributions
- Limitations
- Reception
- See also
- References
- External links
gNewSense was a Linux distribution, active from 2006 to 2016. It was based on Debian, and developed with sponsorship from the Free Software Foundation. Its goal was user-friendliness, but with all proprietary (e.g. binary blobs) and non-free software removed. The Free Software Foundation considered gNewSense to be composed entirely of free software.
gNewSense took a relatively strict stance against proprietary software. For example, any documentation that gave instructions on installing proprietary software was excluded.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “gNewSense” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.