gNewSense

gNewSense is a Linux distribution, in Live CD format, based on Ubuntu, that strictly fulfills the GNU ideology. In fact, it is said that it is the distro chosen by Richard Stallman, the father of the GNU project and one of the creators of the free software movement. So in this operating system we won't find even the smallest track of proprietary software.

  Per default, the desktop environments used in gNewSense is GNOME. In what regards to the applications, Epiphany has been chosen as the web browser, Evolution as the mail manger and Pidgin as the instant messenger application.

  The office suite that it includes is OpenOffice and the image editor is GIMP. What's more, developers will find utilities like GCC and Emacs.

  To sum up, gNewSense is characterized due to its stability (inherited from Ubuntu) and for the fact that it doesn't include any kind of proprietary software, so if you want to try the most authentic free distro download it now.