Both Gobuntu and gNewSense fulfill the desires of the most exigent users when it is about respecting their freedoms. Almost identical at the software level, these two distributions differ in the relation they maintain with Ubuntu at the project level.

A friend of mine, Roy Schestowitz, has published an article over at Earthweb, about gNewsense and Gobuntu.

Mark Pilgrim recently blogged about Gobuntu's rentention of Mozilla's Firefox web browser, including the non-Free files that led to the removal of Firefox from Debian's distribution. Maybe I'll wait a while before testing out Gobuntu myself.