[FSFLA] Hiperbola: A fully free, stable, secure, simple, lightweight and long-term distribution

[Adonay Felipe Nogueira]

Debian is a project to provide a system distribution, and
unfortunatelly, the current system distribution provided by it can't be
considered as free/libre, specially becaouse of the problems you raised.

For an alternative, there is gNewSense, which is listed at
[[http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html]].

It's not recommended to "recommend" Debian to society, even if non-free
repositories and packages are removed, because o the branding associated
with Debian, for which the user can remember and, instead of asking you
for help, could potentially ask Debian project for help which would say
that "the installation was modified somehow, do this [non-free software
installation] to fix it". Besides, the user will remember the Debian
brand, but won't probably remember what you recommended to do in order
to have a free/libre copy, in casese where, for example, he tries to
install it again (or gets it installed again by a person other than
you).

Also, the GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines can be interpreted as
to have the following goal: to make sure that a non-tech end-user
receives the essential freedoms. So the cumbersomeness of having to do
"this and that" in order to have a free/libre copy of [Insert non-free
system distribution here] isn't that non-tech end-user friendly.

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