Quoting Richard Stallman <[email protected]>:
The destructive practice in our community is that of including non-free software in GNU/Linux distributions. Nearly all distributions include non-free software. Although Debian says that this non-free software is not part of Debian, the non-free software is distributed on Debian's servers. To support the goal of a community that rejects non-free software, we must not treat non-free software as legitimate with our actions.
For years I have criticized these distributions--all of them. This sometimes hurts feelings, but the criticism is very important. For years there was no better alternative I could suggest--I could only say why some distributions were more or less of a problem. For years I asked the developers of various distributions to change. Some of them changed partly, but none of them made a free distribution.
Now I am happy to know of a distribution I can recommend unhesitatingly: UTUTO-e (possibly GNU/LinEx as well, we are checking). I can recommend it in a way that I never could and still cannot recommend Debian, Red Hat, SuSE, Gentoo, etc.
My thanks to the developers of UTUTO-e for insisting on free software.