Gobuntu is… go
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007Thanks to Colin and Evan’s efforts we now have daily images of a freedom-focused flavour of Ubuntu, “Gobuntu”. This is a call for developers who are interested in pushing the limits of content and code freedom – including firmware, content, and authoring infrastructure, to join the team and help identify places where we must separate out pieces that don’t belong in Gobuntu from the standard Ubuntu builds.
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/gobuntu/daily/current/
At the moment this primarily addresses hardware drivers but as the team grows we will be able to maintain a bigger delta between Ubuntu and Gobuntu. The goal is to provide a cleaner and easier to maintain base for projects like gNewSense. Bug reports are welcome, but patches and offers of help will get better results.
Thanks guys!
Update: a number of comments have asked what Gobuntu is. It is a flavour of Ubuntu (like Kubuntu or Xubuntu) that is basically the same desktop environment as Ubuntu (a GNOME desktop) and a very strict set of restrictions on the licences of code and content. This means that we try to strip out ANYTHING which is not modifiable and redistributable, including firmware, PDF’s, video footage, sounds etc. We are trying to apply the FSF “rights” definition to everything in the platform. Gobuntu will not correctly enable much hardware today – but it exists as a banner for the cause of software freedom and as a reference of what IS possible with a totally rigorous approach. The goal is to make it a real point of pride to be able to run Gobuntu on a laptop or desktop or server, because it means that all of the stars have aligned to ensure that you have complete freedom to use that hardware with free software.
Joining: there is now a gobuntu-devel mailing list for folks interested in Gobuntu development.
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July 17th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Great news!!!.
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July 18th, 2007 at 4:06 am
I think the idea of a completly free as in freedom version of ubuntu is a great idea, im going to make it a thing to tell my friends and family that use ubuntu about it. I sincerly hope I can help and maybe my brother and one of my freinds can help. But I must ask why didnt someone think of this earlier. Btw you guys should make the mail form say email instead, I gave it an adress.
July 18th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
sorry i am still little confused, what Gobuntu should do while gNewSens already exists ?
and as far as i know it is also Ubuntu based ?
why doesn’t Ubuntu community contributes into gNewSens instead ? or they have their different approach ?
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July 26th, 2007 at 9:01 am
WTF?^W^W A 100% free system?!
I’ll be jumping on the bandwagon writing the free device drivers when it’s out.
-Sam
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September 15th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Hello,
Eric, from Belgium. Multiple sclerosis. Webmaster of websites 100% w3C and webXact compliants.
The whole thing is great but just a few suggestion :
1. Quanta + is great but an iintegrated wysiwyg css editor would drive Quanta + to a Quanta +++
2. automated video encoder to flv (with sound) would be great too
3. i would think for a screen reader for blind persons too (may be it exists but i don’t know where)
Those are the only reason for rebooting twice a day… just to test !
Sorry for my poor english, i don’t practice since i left Monsanto and Polaroid 15 years ago.
All the best
Eric
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November 22nd, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Mark, I read your blog since I installed Ubuntu on my pc but this is my first answer here…
I have to ask, as I understand that goBuntu is pure system with free content so I could install it on my company’s pc or something like that without paying any fee, am I right?
If so have you thought about running special hardware platform for “buntu” os?
I am talking about something “macbook” like but with ubuntu on board?
Thanks
December 6th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
Mark,
It’s nice to put a rel=”external nofollow” on urls but i got a backlink from here ! lmao
Be sure I am one of yours and if you read this, try to translate this page
http://www.sclerose-humour.be/sep/microsoft-handicap.html
Amazing but true
Sincerely yours
Eric
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