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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Free Gentoo
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:23:06
Message-Id: 20120123032216.GE4541@comet
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Free Gentoo by "."
1 On 21:01 Sat 21 Jan , . wrote:
2 > Hello there!
3 >
4 > Is there a chance that Gentoo may become a free distro?
5 >
6 > I'm so unhappy with the fact that there are some non-free packages in
7 > the main tree.
8 > The main goal of the GNU project was to replace the proprietary Unix system.
9 > You are actually ruining this goal.
10 >
11 > I'm also dissatisfied with the name of the distro. Linux is the kernel
12 > not the whole system.
13
14 Hi,
15
16 You should be using the Gentoo derivative Utoto GNU/Linux [1], which
17 consists entirely of FSF-approved free software.
18
19 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ututo
20
21 --
22 Thanks,
23 Donnie
24
25 Donnie Berkholz
26 Council Member / Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux <http://dberkholz.com>
27 Analyst, RedMonk <http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/>