A GNU Distribution

[Christophe Poncy]

ref :
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-system-discuss/2012-04/threads.html

There is an interesting thread on the 'gnu-system-discuss' mailing list
about creating a GNU distribution. I am an happy Funtoo user, but my
feeling is that Funtoo is the best candidate for such a project; there
is a discussion regarding some important choices... Funtoo could become
part of the GNU project, this imply among other things to replace the
Linux kernel by Linux-libre, which became a GNU package (and creating
another branch for the Hurd?). Nobody asked for that, I am just dreaming
to initiate a dialogue between Daniel and RMS, it's why I cross-posted
this idea on their mailing list, this could be so wonderful if Daniel
could share his thought there...

Best regards,

christophe

[Andrew D Kirch]

I would, as a prima facie response say that I am strongly against
working with RMS based on past experiences.
Andrew

[Christopher Smith]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Andrew D Kirch <tre...@trelane.net> wrote:
> On 4/3/2012 12:54 AM, Christophe Poncy wrote:
>> There is an interesting thread on the 'gnu-system-discuss' mailing list
>> about creating a GNU distribution.
>

> I would, as a prima facie response say that I am strongly against working
> with RMS based on past experiences.
> Andrew

I haven't looked at the discussion, but it strikes me as curious, as
the FSF already has a sponsored distribution:

http://www.gnewsense.org/

--
Chris

[Christophe Poncy]

On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:42:52 -0400, Andrew D Kirch wrote:
>
> I would, as a prima facie response say that I am strongly against
> working with RMS based on past experiences.
> Andrew

For this point, maybe there is an opportunity to forget the past by
living today a more positive experience ? I can't talk for rms, but my
guess is that a dialogue is worth a try. There is so many projects
within GNU that can learn each others, including from the GCC or GDB
maintainers. They meet themselves sometimes on GNU hackers meetings.
@Martin : this years GHM seems organized in Germany by Werner Koch, and
was planned at some time in an hotel named "Linux" if I understood
correctly :)

[Christophe Poncy]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 08:47:19 -0700, Christopher Smith wrote:
>
> I haven't looked at the discussion, but it strikes me as curious, as
> the FSF already has a sponsored distribution:
>
> http://www.gnewsense.org/
>

The project today seems quite different in that gnewsense was never
part of the GNU project