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1. gNewSense
1.1 General Information, Installation and Upgrades
General questions
What is gNewSense? What should I know before installing gNewSense?
Getting started
Preparations for trying and installing gNewSense.
Installing gNewSense
Detailed installation manual with screenshots (includes dual-boot information).
Alternative Installation Guide
Written for Adelaide, Australia.
Installation in a virtual machine
Install gNewSense in a virtual machine using VirtualBox.
Installation from USB
Install gNewSense from a memory stick.
Upgrading from Ubuntu Dapper to gNewSense
Technical details for converting an Ubuntu Dapper computer to gNewSense.
Upgrading gNewSense
How to upgrade from an older release of gNewSense.
Backing up gNewSense
Restoring your system when something goes horribly wrong.
1.2 Applications and hardware
Software Administration
Installing and removing software in gNewSense.
Broken 3d Apps
A partial list of things broken by removing GLX/Mesa (No longer valid; GLX/Mesa has been freed and re-integrated).
SoftwareFinder
Are you looking for a program for a special purpose?
Standard applications
Office, Browser, etc.
Desktop Environments?
About Gnome.
Games and Multimedia
gNewSense in your free time.
Hints on drivers and hardware
How to get your ethernet card working.
Recommended hardware
Which hardware will run well with gNewSense and Free Software in general?
1.3 Community-contributed documentation
Documentation
Community-contributed documentation for gNewSense.
2. Builder
Builder documentation
The Builder related documentation.
3. Community
Ways to communicate
IRC, mailing lists.
How To Help
How to help the gNewSense project.
Community Guidelines
Etiquette Guide for gNewSense Community.
External links
Webpages about gNewSense.
Requests
Requests for changes to the MainSite.
4. Miscellaneous
(todo:these are/should be incorporated in the precedent)
Why Free Software
Why you should choose free software - and gNewSense.
Summary
Summary of package freedom and bug statistics for the last 4 weeks.
Current Projects
Projects related to gNewSense run by the community and their status.
IRC.Quotes
Quotes from #gnewsense on Freenode.
Extra helpful upstreams
Upstream projects, or members of projects who deserve special thanks.
gNewSense sites and communities
Attempt to create a list of all directly gNewSense related sites and communities.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions (Deprecated)
4.1 External Links
(todo: this is not the right place for these links)
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fsfs/rms-essays.pdf explains why Free Software is important!
http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html lists priority Free Software projects.
http://www.binaryfreedom.info/ an organization of activists with the main focus in promoting Free Software and other digital/Internet freedoms.