Why gNewSense? Why Freedom? Freedom does not come Free , or Free without effort and it's easy software libre, is a matter as in to backslide. of the freedom to run, Freedom Some distros install copy, distribute, study, change and improve the ● increasing amounts of software. by default

● proprietary kernel drivers Problems with security, portability and maintenance go hand in hand with proprietary Whose Freedom? components. a completely free We were the first distro Yours. software distribution to remove the GLX Software is a tool and built on encumberance, which had freedom is necessary to the GNU operating been ignored for years. make that tool useful. system We put our emphasis on and freedom for you, the the kernel user, so that middlemen cannot take it away. www..org gNewSense was started Freedom Matters? to provide a software distribution without sourceless, binary blobs in the kernel. 64-bit computing run the program for any purpose 64-bit computing is possible, BLOBS? too, using either AMD64 or More important than ever, MIPS. What's wrong until the the threat of with blobs lacking source? software patents is ☹ correctness cannot be resolved. MIPS is used anywhere checked from supercomputers down study how the program to embedded devices. ☹ security code works and improve it Recently new audit impossible Customize your tools of series and using ☹ vendors or others can trade. Improve your MIPS have become easily hide backdoors and knowledge, improve your available, such as those spyware in the blob software. from the vendors and Gdium ☹ complete dependence on redistribute copies a single vendor: The marginal cost for re- AMD64 is very common in ☹ bugs or vulnerabilities distribution of software is off-the-shelf, consumer- cannot be repaired zero. Use that strength. grade desktops. independently redistribute changes ☹ the vendor can drop Bring a brick, get a house. Of course, gNewSense can support at any time Teamwork. still be run as 32-bit on the old i386 architecture.