gNewSense Releases DeltaH
BOSTON, MA, USA — May 1, 2008 — The gNewSense project today announced the release of DeltaH[1], the second version of their all free-software GNU/Linux distribution.
The DeltaH download web page states[2], "DeltaH was our second major release, based on Ubuntu Hardy. 2.0 was released on May 1st 2008 - less than a week after Hardy's release."
The gNewSense project dubs itself as "A free as in freedom GNU/Linux distribution, that takes all the non-free blobs out of a rather popular distribution."
In addition to stripping binary blobs from the kernel, the package and source trees contain only free software drivers, and do not offer access to any proprietary software. Because of this commitment to free software, the Free Software Foundation and the GNU project recommend that users seeking to install a distribution of GNU/Linux consider installing gNewSense.
The developers of gNewSense invite those interested in discussing this latest release to join their mailing list[3] or join them on irc.freenode.net in the #gnewsense channel.
[1],[2]: http://www.gnewsense.org/Main/Deltah
[3]: http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
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DeltaH reviewed
I took a quick look at DeltaH and detailed how it differs from Ubuntu here:
http://shii.org/knows/GNewSense
I expect these distros will become much more useful when audio and video patents start expiring, around 2017.
Most patented formats are readable under gNewSense!
I switched to gNewSense as soon as version 2 was released. I do not know what formats you are talking about but gNewSense can read any mp3, mpeg2, xvid, wmv, etc. Even better, when attempting to read such a file the first time, it indicates you the missing packages so that you can fix the problem in two clicks.
Alternatively you can install all these codecs by searching gstreamer inside Synaptic.
Regarding flash contents, you should try sfwdec-mozilla instead. With it, Epiphany perfectly reads the videos from YouTube. ;-)
I may try it sometime...
Of course, I'll be doing so in a virtual machine. Since most people complain about lack of 3D support etc in a Free Software environment, I figured that AMD's recent actions would be a welcome thing for the Free Software movement. Now if only NVIDIA and VIA would speed it up on releasing their specs as well (without NDA's!).
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