It seems that next version of gnewsense will be based on Debian. This means we’ll get some interesting stuff. Things like debian installer (lean and mean, yay), eglibc, and even FreeBSD kernel. This news really surprised me (in a good way) since it was just told casually on the list without any formal announcement whatsoever. They probably announced it on the channel.

I kinda think that the new Debian release policy played an important part on switching base from Ubuntu to Debian (there is no certainty on this. Purely my presumption). Well let us hope that with this new Debian release policy, the packages will be as latest as possible (not as latest as Ubuntu but still). And of course, I also hope that my favorite mirror will host this.

gNewSense 2.2 is now available.

And add these lines into your source list if you want to try IceCat.
deb http://gnuzilla.gnu.org/download/debian deltah-icecat universe main
deb-src http://gnuzilla.gnu.org/download/debian deltah-icecat universe main


I need a new hard drive…

Changes since 2.0 include:
- Linux-ubuntu-modules cleared of non-free blobs
- Usplash added, thanks to Jean
- New theme and artwork, thanks to Patricio, Briareoh and Leo
- Readded fix for module-init-tools for eepro100
- Builder: LiveCD no longer asks for password on sudo
- Builder: Added support for extra repositories in python-apt
- Builder: Various tweaks, fixes and improvements from Karl

Here’s a few words from the chief

I’ve just realised that tomorrow will mark the 2 year anniversary of our first release.
Accordingly, it’s somewhat appropriate that our 10th LiveCD is released today.

It’s strange to think that it’s well over 2 years since Paul and I started gNewSense. While I remain the main developer; many other people have contributed code, and many many more time and effort, to ensure that this distribution stays free and usable. We were the first for example to remove all non-free blobs from the kernel and also the first to remove GLX. Through all this work we have produced what is, to the best of my knowledge, the freest GNU/Linux distribution in existence.

I’d like to thank everyone for their help and support thus far, and look forward to the future of gNewSense.

Heh…the most “hated” removal had to be linux-ubuntu-modules. Glad to see it back.