Excerpt from an interview RMS had with OFB's Timothy R. Butler recently
OFB: What GNU/Linux distribution do you presently recommend if someone comes up to you and asks how to get started with Free Software? Is there one that meets the FSF's criteria completely?
RMS: Yes, there is. It is called UTUTO, and it is developed by committed free software activists in Argentina.
The existence of this distribution is a big step forward for the free software movement. For many years there was literally no GNU/Linux distribution that I could ethically recommend to the general public. Most distributions contained non-free software; the few exceptions distributed non-free software from their sites.
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