Honestly @1093i3511 you’re such a taart ![]()
I simply couldn’t resists that “Steilvorlage” as we would say in the German language. ![]()
But all jokes aside:
I wish you the best of luck with your project to revive gNewSense. If that is what you’re actually reaching out for. But I think you’ll have to be a bit more precise what your actual project would address. You’re listing several distros. And from my point of view: There are plenty of distros already. Instead of creating several new ones, I would strongly recommend to keep it simple and keep it modular, not baking an individual distro for each specific DE / WM. Arch itself is pretty DE / WM agnostic already. And I wouldn’t underestimate the effort which is required to maintain even a single distro. Also, instead of creating a new distro, have you considered to join the team of another distro ? Maybe there is one active within your country / language. As it is somewhat pretty clear that there is a language barrier, at least in terms of the english language.
i dont need since im in one person project if i make you small team so you could be backup
@namir I think it’s worth your taking the time to digest this thread because there’s some relevance there in terms of what you’re trying to do, - particularly in terms of the naming. I’m assuming good faith and you have actually engaged with the original creators to ask for permission to use that name..? Even if it’s nothing more that a courtesy, I think it matters.
i add licesnce on github
are you happy since i add license on github
We’re not the people to ask as we’re not the original creators of gNewSense.
Since nobody here is a creator of gNewSense, whether or not “we’re happy” doesn’t really matter.
gNewSense was originally created in 2006 by two Irish free software advocates, Brian Brazil and Paul O’Malley. Finding a way to contact one (or both) of them would be a good start.
There is still the mailing list gnewsense-users that seems to be still accessible and within this thread the last maintainer announced that he will step down from this position. That being said, as there is a feasibility to contact Sam Geeraerts via eMail reply, I guess that would be one of the options to reach out.
Also, within that thread he definitely encouraged someone to take on this duty and offered his support and collaboration, but his intend definitely has been to don’t take on the full responsibility anymore.
On the other hand, lets face the current situation. Personally I don’t expect that the intention to revive that distro is past it’s planning stages. There are some initial commits generated by the help of a LLM, essentially mostly prepping domains, social media and such, which are partially only placeholders and aren’t registered domains yet. The repo currently consists mostly of markdown files.
Best of luck to @namir. But I’m skeptical, reaching out without a solid foundation is way to early.