[Planning-es] GNU operating system for old machines
An extremely light distribution that is being tested to be approved as the tenth free software GNU distro by the Free Software Foundation <https://www.fsf.org/about/> which is recommended for machines with 64MB RAM or more is Connochaetos <http://www.connochaetos.org/wiki/>. It comes in its version for 486 CPUs or better <http://sourceforge.net/projects/connochaetos/files/connos-0.9.0.iso/download>. It can be valuable to demonstrate that it is possible to have a modern GNU operating system with with nothing but free (as in freedom) software. If you are a little more knowledgeable on the subject, you can install Parabola <https://parabolagnulinux.org/>. It is a distro of the GNU operating system which is totally configurable because it installs nothing that you have not commanded to be installed. (Not even the graphic user interface.) It is a distro that comes with packages almost as new as if you were to compile them yourself from the developers' latest source code. So, if you like to hack, use it and advocate it for its philosophical as well as technical freedom! If you are going to install it on SFD, practice beforehand so you do not have probles on Saturday. If you want a free distro that works with at least 512MB on RAM and has an interface similar to Windowz, use Trisquel <http://devel.trisquel.info/dagda/iso/>. It comes for 64 bits <http://devel.trisquel.info/dagda/iso/trisquel_5.0_amd64.iso> and 32 bits <http://devel.trisquel.info/dagda/iso/trisquel_5.0_i686.iso>. Try Triskel for 32 bits <http://devel.trisquel.info/dagda/iso/old/triskel_5.0-20110911_i686.iso> or for 64 bits <http://devel.trisquel.info/dagda/iso/old/triskel_5.0-20110911_amd64.iso> if you want a really nice interface (KDE). Distribute free (as in freedom) software <https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html> and caution <http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources/CdNotice> others about software that is non-free. ¡Be free! <http://fsfla.org/svnwiki/selibre/index.en.html> and you will notice that the future of society will be better when you start on your own stuff. Software Freedom Day is about freedom. So make your best to help people know that it is the freedom that matters by using only free software. Keep on hacking <https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hacker_%28programmer_subculture%29>...society! -- Quiliro Ordóñez 09 821 8696 02 340 1517 "...por la libertad, así como por la honra, se puede y debe aventurar la vida." Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
On 15/09/11 18:32, Quiliro Ordóñez wrote: <snip>
Distribute free (as in freedom) software <https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html>
There are other fully Free Software distributions, such as Debian, that are not listed there because the list is for those following Free *System* Distribution Guidelines not the Free *Software* Distribution Guidelines. A system can be fully free software but not comply with the "Free System Distribution Guidelines". http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html Further, distributions that follow the "Free System Distribution Guidelines" can include non-free documentation, such as GFDL with non-modifiable non-licence parts.
and caution <http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources/CdNotice> others about software that is non-free.
I have joint authorship with RMS on that. :) Be Free, Mike.
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Michael Dorrington
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Quiliro Ordóñez