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<h2 style="border-style: none; font-size:30px; font-weight:400">Welcome to the '''[[#About|Free Software Directory]]'''<br><small style="font-size:60%; color:#706D80; font-weight:bold; font-variant: small-caps;">A collaborative catalog of free software.</small></h2>
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<onlyinclude>This project is to redesign the FSD's front page to be more accessible to all users.</onlyinclude>
  
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<div width="100%" style="box-shadow: 3px 3px 5px 0px #ccc; padding: 8px 0px 8px 10px; border-radius:10px 10px 10px 10px; border: gray 0.1em solid; background-color: #ffa;">[https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html '''Free software] is a matter of liberty, not price.''' Think of “free” as in “free speech”, not as in “free beer”. Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to '''run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software'''.</div>
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{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
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! colspan="3" | Group info
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! colspan="4" | User info
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! User
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! Real name
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! [[Template:Participate text|libera.chat nick]]
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! Time zone
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! Title
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! [[User:Craigt|Craigt]]
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| Craig Topham
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| craigt
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| America/New_York
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| [https://www.fsf.org/about/staff-and-board#craigt FSF Copyright & Licensing Associate]
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! [[User:Panos_Alevropoulos|Panos_Alevropoulos]]
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| Panos Alevropoulos
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| panosalevro
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| Greece/Thessaloniki
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! [[User:David_Hedlund|David_Hedlund]]
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| David Hedlund
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| David_Hedlund
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| Europe/Stockholm
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! [[User:Adfeno|Adfeno]]
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| Adonay Felipe Nogueira
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| adfeno
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| America/Sao_Paulo
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<h2 width="100%" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; border-top-color:#e74c3c; border-top-style: solid; border-width: 4px 0px 0px 0px; color:#e74c3c; font-size: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; text-transform: uppercase;">What is the FSD?</h2>
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==Objectives==
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{{About text}}
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The Free Software Directory's main page is due for an upgrade and should be modeled after https://wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org/wiki/Main.
  
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<h2 width="100%" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; border-top-color:#e74c3c; border-top-style: solid; border-width: 4px 0px 0px 0px; color:#e74c3c; font-size: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; text-transform: uppercase;">Become a FSD Volunteer</h2>
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==General==
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{{Participate text}}
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* Identify the types of visitors and how to make the front page useful for each.
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* Reduce the need for scrolling down the page. Make everything as accessible as possible.
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* Modernize the current language, but keep it simple.
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* No proprietary anything on the main page, "new to free software" or "first time here?" sub- page can have those links.
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* Some sort of ranking system that brings the best of each software category to the top and get people using the "best" (so they are more impressed).
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* Free Software Directory; the analogous "free beer" of software freedom.
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* Feature the big popular projects that people know or may be looking for, gnu, blender, inkscape, office, the big ones.
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* More use of logos that we want people to recognize.
  
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<h2 width="100%" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; border-top-color:#e74c3c; border-top-style: solid; border-width: 4px 0px 0px 0px; color:#e74c3c; font-size: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; text-transform: uppercase;">Main listing</h2>
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==Visitors new to free software, "new to free software" or "first time here?"==
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* Make it easy for nonfree software users to get introduced to their first free software program.
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* Assume they are here to find a software replacement <https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:Free_software_replacements>
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* Connect with <https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Freedom_Ladder>
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* <https://www.fsf.org/working-together/moving> points to <https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:Free_software_replacements>
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* You want the "free beer" of software freedom. This is it. What is your OS?
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* Get more people actually using free software. Have anyone who is actually interested in finding and using free software feel welcome, whatever the motivation is.
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* The word replacement needs to change. Free software is not a replacement, it should be the de facto.
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* Include links to specific OSs on the FSD pages, and why they are terrible, horrible, no good, very bad software.
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* Should have an android as well as replicant.
  
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==Visitors who know why they are here==
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* Suggestion from rms to make the search box easier to see RT#1636381.
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* People who know how to use the FSD, do not need to be catered to on the main  page.
  
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==Visitors who are looking to volunteer==
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    <li>[[All|Browse All ({{#ask: [[Name::+]][[:+]]|format=count}})]]</li>
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* Upfront summary to set expectations and getting them interested.
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    <li>[[File:Heckert_gnu.small.png|30px|link=GNU]] [[GNU|GNU packages ({{Getcount|Is GNU::y}})]]</li>
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* Participate should be equally visible as new to fs.
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    <li>[[Collection:High Priority Projects|High Priority Projects ({{Getcount|Is High Priority Project::y}})]]</li>
 
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    <li>[[Featured|Featured ({{#ask: [[Featured date::+]][[:+]]|format=count}})]]</li>
 
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    <li>[https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Special:AllPages?from=&to=&namespace=510 Collections]</li>
 
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    <li>[[Free Software Directory:Free software replacements|Free software replacements]]</li>
 
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    <li>{{Query link|Query_license}} [[Special:RunQuery/Query_license|Query on license type]]</li>
 
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    <li>{{Query link|Query_description}} [[Special:RunQuery/Query_description|Query on descriptions]] </li>
 
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    <li>[[Special:Random|Random entry]]</li>
 
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    <li>[[Special:RecentChanges|Most recent changes]]</li>
 
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    <li>[[File:Rss.png]] {{#ask: [[Submitted date::+]] | sort=Submitted date | order=descending | format=rss | searchlabel=New packages RSS feed | rsstitle=Free Software Directory | rssdescription=Recent updates to Free Software Directory (directory.fsf.org) }}</li>
 
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    <li>[[File:Rss.png]] {{#ask: [[Last review date::+]] | sort=Last review date | order=descending | format=rss | searchlabel=Recent updates RSS feed | rsstitle=Free Software Directory | rssdescription=Recent updates to Free Software Directory (directory.fsf.org) }}</li>
 
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==About page==
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* The about section currently at the bottom of the main page, should be at the top.
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* <https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:About>
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* This should contain the history of the FSD.
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* It should explain the FSD is THE conduit for victims of proprietary software to find relief.
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==Previously Proposed About text by Craig==
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<h2 style="border-style: none; font-size:30px; font-weight:400">Welcome to the '''[[#About|Free Software Directory]]'''<br><small style="font-size:60%; color:#706D80; font-weight:bold; font-variant: small-caps;">A collaborative catalog of free software</small></h2>
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<div width="100%" style="box-shadow: 3px 3px 5px 0px #ccc; padding: 8px 0px 8px 10px; border-radius:10px 10px 10px 10px; border: gray 0.1em solid; background-color: #ffa;">
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'''''The Free Software Directory''''' ('''FSD''', or simply '''Directory''') is a project of the [https://www.fsf.org/ Free Software Foundation (FSF)].
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''&ldquo;[https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Free software] is a matter of liberty, not price. Think of “free” as in “free speech”, not as in “free beer”. Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to '''run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software'''.&rdquo;''
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We catalog useful free software that runs under free GNU-like systems, not limited to the [https://www.gnu.org/ GNU] operating system and its GNU/Linux variants. Many of those programs also run on proprietary operating systems which can be used to [[Free Software Directory:Free software replacements|replace nonfree software]].
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If you are looking for a full operating system for your computer, please see our list of [https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html free GNU/Linux distributions].
 
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==Previously Proposed About text by David Hedlund==
  
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<h2 style="border-style: none; font-size:30px; font-weight:400">Welcome to the '''[[#About|Free Software Directory]]'''<br><small style="font-size:60%; color:#706D80; font-weight:bold; font-variant: small-caps;">A collaborative catalog of free software for GNU and GNU/Linux:</small></h2>
  
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    <li>[[Collection:High Priority Projects|Programs ({{Getcount|Is High Priority Project::y}})]]</li>
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'''''The Free Software Directory''''' ('''FSD''', or simply '''Directory''') is a project of the [https://www.fsf.org/ Free Software Foundation (FSF)].
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    <li>[[Collection:PRISM|PRISM]] (collection)</li>
 
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    <li>[[Collection:Forensics and penetration|Forensics and penetration]] (collection)</li>
 
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    <li>[[Collection:Privacy pack|Privacy pack]] (collection)</li>
 
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    <li>[[Category/Interface/accessibility|Interface: Accessibility]]</li>
 
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    <li>[[Category/Internet-application/privacy|Internet-application: Privacy]]</li>
 
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''&ldquo;[https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Free software] is a matter of liberty, not price. Think of “free” as in “free speech”, not as in “free beer”. Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to '''run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software'''.&rdquo;''
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We catalog useful free software that runs under [https://www.gnu.org/ GNU] and its variants like GNU/Linux. Many of those programs also runs on proprietary operating systems which can be used to [[Free Software Directory:Free software replacements|replace nonfree software]].
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If you are looking for a full operating system for your computer, please see our list of [https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html free GNU/Linux distributions].
 
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==Previously Proposed About text by Adfeno==
  
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{{Category_table_divided}}
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This assumes that FSF voting members will choose to head the Directory towards free software that runs on distributions that use GNU by default (in the default install), no matter which kernel these have.
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'''[[Category/All|List of all categories]]'''
 
  
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If FSF voting members choose to head the Directory to general all free software, then please ignore this proposal.
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<h2 style="border-style: none; font-size:30px; font-weight:400">Welcome to the '''[[#About|Free Software Directory]]'''<br><small style="font-size:60%; color:#706D80; font-weight:bold; font-variant: small-caps;">A collaborative catalog of free software that runs on distributions that use GNU by default </small></h2>
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'''''The Free Software Directory''''' ('''FSD''', or simply '''Directory''') is a project of the [https://www.fsf.org/ Free Software Foundation (FSF)].
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''&ldquo;[https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Free software] is a matter of liberty, not price. Think of “free” as in “free speech”, not as in “free beer”. Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to '''run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software'''.&rdquo;''
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We catalog useful free software that runs under distributions that use the [https://www.gnu.org/ GNU] operating system by default, no matter the kernel. Many of those programs also run on proprietary operating systems which can be used to [[Free Software Directory:Free software replacements|replace nonfree software]].
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If you are looking for a full operating system for your computer, please see our list of [https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html free GNU/Linux distributions].
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Latest revision as of 16:39, 11 March 2023

This project is to redesign the FSD's front page to be more accessible to all users.

Group info User info
User Real name libera.chat nick Time zone Title
Craigt Craig Topham craigt America/New_York FSF Copyright & Licensing Associate
Panos_Alevropoulos Panos Alevropoulos panosalevro Greece/Thessaloniki
David_Hedlund David Hedlund David_Hedlund Europe/Stockholm
Adfeno Adonay Felipe Nogueira adfeno America/Sao_Paulo

Objectives

The Free Software Directory's main page is due for an upgrade and should be modeled after https://wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org/wiki/Main.

General

  • Identify the types of visitors and how to make the front page useful for each.
  • Reduce the need for scrolling down the page. Make everything as accessible as possible.
  • Modernize the current language, but keep it simple.
  • No proprietary anything on the main page, "new to free software" or "first time here?" sub- page can have those links.
  • Some sort of ranking system that brings the best of each software category to the top and get people using the "best" (so they are more impressed).
  • Free Software Directory; the analogous "free beer" of software freedom.
  • Feature the big popular projects that people know or may be looking for, gnu, blender, inkscape, office, the big ones.
  • More use of logos that we want people to recognize.

Visitors new to free software, "new to free software" or "first time here?"

Visitors who know why they are here

  • Suggestion from rms to make the search box easier to see RT#1636381.
  • People who know how to use the FSD, do not need to be catered to on the main page.

Visitors who are looking to volunteer

  • Upfront summary to set expectations and getting them interested.
  • Participate should be equally visible as new to fs.

About page




Previously Proposed About text by Craig

Welcome to the Free Software Directory
A collaborative catalog of free software

The Free Software Directory (FSD, or simply Directory) is a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

“Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. Think of “free” as in “free speech”, not as in “free beer”. Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.”

We catalog useful free software that runs under free GNU-like systems, not limited to the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants. Many of those programs also run on proprietary operating systems which can be used to replace nonfree software.

If you are looking for a full operating system for your computer, please see our list of free GNU/Linux distributions.

Previously Proposed About text by David Hedlund

Welcome to the Free Software Directory
A collaborative catalog of free software for GNU and GNU/Linux:

The Free Software Directory (FSD, or simply Directory) is a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

“Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. Think of “free” as in “free speech”, not as in “free beer”. Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.”

We catalog useful free software that runs under GNU and its variants like GNU/Linux. Many of those programs also runs on proprietary operating systems which can be used to replace nonfree software.

If you are looking for a full operating system for your computer, please see our list of free GNU/Linux distributions.

Previously Proposed About text by Adfeno

This assumes that FSF voting members will choose to head the Directory towards free software that runs on distributions that use GNU by default (in the default install), no matter which kernel these have.

If FSF voting members choose to head the Directory to general all free software, then please ignore this proposal.

Welcome to the Free Software Directory
A collaborative catalog of free software that runs on distributions that use GNU by default

The Free Software Directory (FSD, or simply Directory) is a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

“Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. Think of “free” as in “free speech”, not as in “free beer”. Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.”

We catalog useful free software that runs under distributions that use the GNU operating system by default, no matter the kernel. Many of those programs also run on proprietary operating systems which can be used to replace nonfree software.

If you are looking for a full operating system for your computer, please see our list of free GNU/Linux distributions.


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The copyright and license notices on this page only apply to the text on this page. Any software or copyright-licenses or other similar notices described in this text has its own copyright notice and license, which can usually be found in the distribution or license text itself.

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