8 posts tagged “gnewsense”

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Gobuntu

The new "Free software only" installation option in the normal Ubuntu (press F6 in the boot menu twice) basically achieves what Gobuntu is aiming for, as long as the general goal of having "clean" main and universe repositories is fulfilled (which is goal of the Ubuntu as a whole).

Given that many goals Gobuntu has are goals of Ubuntu in general also, and the fact that gNewSense is anyway doing the work that can also benefit Ubuntu (knowledge of problematic packages), the mission of Gobuntu is a bit up in the air.

Mark Shuttleworth on Rethinking Gobuntu

The "current and future" thread on this list has got me thinking. 
Perhaps we really are on the wrong track, that the only way to meet the 
needs of the gNewSense folks is to have completely different source 
packages to Ubuntu. If that is the case, then I think it would be better 
to channel the energy from Gobuntu into gNewSense.

I have just tried CentOS 5 and am a bit disappointed

1. The LIVE-CD gives me a blank screen on my IBM Thinkpad
2. The INSTALL-DVD still doesn't have a graphical installer
3. I asked for a desktop build and (unless I misread something) its only created a root user and I first have to log in as that

I'm afraid I'm going to stick with gNewSense & Xubuntu for the moment at least for my desktops and notebooks !

Now Google Desktop and Google Earth are both available for GNU/Linux !

• http://desktop.google.com/linux/download.html
  
• http://earth.google.com/intl/en/tour/

Googledesktop

I've just discovered the swscanner GNU/Linux Wi-Fi & GPS scanner.

Screenshot-Simple Wireless Scanner - SWScanner3

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IBM Thinkpad running gNewSense and VMware Server

gNewSense is derived from Ubuntu, and thus has most of the same functionality.

There are a number of differences though.

• Firmware removed from kernel in main*
• Builder, a tool to produce a distribution
• Restricted removed
• Ubuntu logos replaced
• Universe enabled by default
• emacs, bsdgames, nethack and build-essential part of the default install

Note the goal is to produce a fully free distribution, not to have as many features as possible.

Just installed gNewSense and whereas Debian calls FireFox IceWeasel, GnewSense calls FireFox BurningDog !

Burningdog

Ubuntu 6.06
breaks after running update manager !

and

Ubuntu 7.04
is broken from the beginning!

• cannot install on 800x600 screen
• disk partitioner refuses to overwrite debian partition
• WiFi is broken (duplicate adapters and neither works)
• USB mouse becomes dead paperweight after just three minutes
• VMware Server 1.0.3 does not install (even if you download all of the dozens of fixs and patches available on the web)

Ubuntu 6.06

It is impossible to install or remove any software.
Please use the package manager "Synaptic" or run "sudo apt-get install -f" in a terminal to fix this issue at first.


Does this help ?


# apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  samba
Recommended packages:
  smbldap-tools
The following packages will be upgraded:
  samba
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/2849kB of archives.
After unpacking 8192B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 99900 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace samba 3.0.22-1ubuntu3.2 (using .../samba_3.0.22-1ubuntu 3.3_i386.deb) ...
invoke-rc.d: dangling symlink: /etc/rc2.d/S91samba
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 102
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
invoke-rc.d: dangling symlink: /etc/rc2.d/S91samba
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/samba_3.0.22-1ubuntu3.3_i386. deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 102
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/samba_3.0.22-1ubuntu3.3_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


No it doesn't !

Ubuntu 7.04
# lsusb
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:0053 Microsoft Corp.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 
$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5a31 (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 81)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI (rev 80)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80)
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 80)
00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SB400 - AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 80)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
09:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller
09:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
09:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)