[Mageia-discuss] Should Mageia have linux-libre kernel? Yes!

[André Machado]

People,

Now that the distro is starting, it's easier to define the course of the project. We have to make sure we're doing the right thing.

Something to be discussed is whether the distro will follow the guidelines of the FSF and have only free software on it. This is something to be widely discussed: support for the Stallman's group could be very advantageous, but would sacrifice the end user experience. Proprietary software could be placed in a separate repository. Another point is that according GPL, all source code should be available.

But something the distro MUST have as an option to the user - that would bring a lot of free software activists for our side - regardless of the choice to be made in relation to this requirement as is the ability to install your kernel linux-libre .

Basically, linux-libre is a fork of the Linux kernel maintained by the FSF Latin America that has no binary blobs. Currently, there are very few distros that offer it.

I believe he should be in the repositories or on the installation media, where the user can install a system with it by typing something like "install = libre" or something similar at boot time of this media. Of course, we offer regular Linux kernel as default.

For more information, see: http://www.fsfla.org/svnwiki/selibre/linux-libre/


      
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