Review: gNewSense 2.1
gNewSense, a Linux distribution put out by the Free Software Foundation, is designed and intended to provide you with a distro completely free of any and all proprietary drivers, software, or codecs. It strives to also be new-user friendly, reliable, and easy to use. But does it really succeed at fulfilling its desires, or does it become a nuisance (pun intended) instead? The best way to find out is to have a look.
LiveCD
gNewSense comes with options to both install, and to run as a LiveCD. Upon booting the cd, the system loads straight from the boot prompt to the desktop in just a little over a minute. That's good speed for a LiveCD, but not the winning feature. There's a lot more that they have to provide in order to win the hearts and minds of end users.
Once on the desktop, you're greeted with a fairly nice looking desktop based on Gnome 2.14 using the "glass icon" theme. The first thing that jumped out at me was that the system was unable to go beyond 640x480.
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