100% free ebox

[quiliro]

I would like to know if the latest ebox (which I understand is based on ubuntu) will be rebuilt to be based on gnewsense so the software in it is 100% free software. ubuntu has some propietary software which is not good for the free software movement.

Thanks for your help.

[Javier Amor Garcia]

No, we will stick to Ubuntu. The only non-free software we use in eBox is some propietary bits that are in the Ubuntu's linux-server  kernel but clean up this is not a priority for us.

Cheers,
  Javier

[javi]

We will probably have a Debian based version which will be totally free as in free speech The only thing is we will release updates for ubuntu more often.

[quiliro]

No, we will stick to Ubuntu. The only non-free software we use in eBox is some propietary bits that are in the Ubuntu's linux-server  kernel but clean up this is not a priority for us.

Cheers,
  Javier

What is the difference? gNewSense 2.0 has exactly the same packages as Ubuntu 8.04 except for the kernel proprietary modules and some artwork. It's a question of changing repositories. That's it. The process is exactly the same. With the advantage of having a 100% distro which could go in

http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions

Would a fork be better?