Yogesh Ashok Powar

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    My first hand experience on Fully Free OS

    Tags: FSF FreeSoftware

    Parabola GNU/Linux

    Parabola is free (free as in freedom), simple and lightweight GNU/Linux distribution.

    Isn’t this same as yet another Linux distribution eg., Ubuntu or Fedora?
    Doesn’t other Linux distributions free?

    Unlike, ubuntu and fedora, the parabola is based on the softwares that are completely free. Which means all the software that runs on the Parabola operating system follows guideline of free system distribution

    Aren’t existing Linux distributions have above points covered?
    What softwares from other Linux distribution dont satisfy above condition?

    There is good long list of software that are in fact blacklisted because of freedom issues. One can go through it from  http://repo.parabolagnulinux.org/docs/blacklist.txt

    Whats left if one blacklists so many of softwares?

    Alternatives to all these blacklisted softwares are present (for most of these). And with fully free softwares which intact our freedom one can perform their computation.

    Following is a snapshot from my home machine which has x86_64 architecture.

    yogeshp@localhost:~$ pacman -Ss freedom  
libre/your-freedom 20130629-1 (base) \[installed\]  
    This package conflicts with every nonfree package known to date to ensure your system is free.

    My parabola is sufficient to perform almost all the essential computation activities. Eg. surfing Internet, Documents processing, Music & Multimedia with keeping my freedom intact.

    Be at rest, Be free and work. (Swami Vivekanand)

    Tags: FSF FreeSoftware
    Updated on: 2013-07-01