What does it mean to make a new GNU/Linux distro that is more user-friendly and entirely free? How would it differ from Debian? It seems to me it would differ in two ways:
1. It is entirely free. You could achieve this starting with Debian by eliminating the non-free and contrib categories (the definitions may need a little adjustment), getting rid of some links to them, changing some HOWTOs, and a few other things. 2. It has some additional software for user-friendliness. If you think about it, #1 is basically equivalent to what I've been asking people to do since about a year ago: to make *in effect* a version of Debian which has only the free software (main and non-us). But instead of forking the whole distro, I've proposed doing this by making some structural and configuration changes to make it possible for these two versions of GNU/Linux to share almost everything. That seems both more efficient and more friendly. As for #2, that software needs to be written, but Debian would gladly accept it I am sure. So there is no need to fork, no need to make a separate project--not for reason #1 and not for reason #2.
