The arrival of gNewSense 2.3

Your shipment of gNewSense has arrived. It was released last Monday and is already being enjoyed by many. Existing users have gotten it through regular updates, but we've also seen new users taking this important step towards freedom. If you would like to follow their example, just click the download button (which I've finally managed to fix) on this website. (Please use the torrent and seed if you can.)

This new release brings you some added freedom fixes in the packages (see also the software blacklist) and a more free Linux kernel. The other noticable major change in the new default install is the removal of Mono. This comes as a result of Richard Stallman's call to discourage C#. The two default applications that depended on Mono were F-Spot and Tomboy. They have been replaced by gThumb and Gnote respectively. A nice side effect of that is that the download has become smaller, so you can start using gNewSense sooner.

I would like to point out that Software Freedom Day is happening this Saturday. And what can be better than a fully Free operating system like gNewSense to tell people what Free software is all about and what it can do. Here's a selection of what you could do:

• Hand out live CDs.
• Show the live CD or an installed system on a demo machine.
• Show it on your Yeeloong mini-laptop. That would be a different version than the one we just released, but it gives a taste of things to come. And promoting the Yeeloong is a good thing.
• Organize an install party.
• Make (and hand out) bootable USB sticks by installing gNewSense on to one with the live CD or via FUSBi.
• Hand out flyers.

It's possible that you like the idea of a Free operating system, but your not entirely happy with gNewSense's implementation of it. Then there's a variety of other Free GNU/Linux distributions you can choose from. Our friends from Trisquel also just released a new version and Kongoni has just been added to the list. It looks like Software Freedom Day can't go wrong this year.