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

[Gergely Lónyai]

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Mageia-discuss] Should Mageia have linux-libre kernel?
> Yes!
> From: atilla ontas <tarakbumba at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, September 20, 2010 12:25 pm
> To: Mageia general discussions <mageia-discuss at mageia.org>
> 
> 
> I fully agree with this opinion. Linux-libre should be offered to free
> software addict users while propierty drives and other non-free software
> included as a choice.
> 
> 2010/9/20 Filipe Saraiva <filip.saraiva at gmail.com>
> 
> > It would be good to give this to the user. I agree with her.
> >
> > Em 19 de setembro de 2010 17:50, André Machado <
> > andreferreiramachado at yahoo.com.br> escreveu:
> >
> >> 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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Is the free equal GNU/Linux? The Debian/Ubuntu follow this philosphy but
we don't need it. We have a great kernel devel/maintainer (tmb). I want
to he maintain the mageia kernel in future.
...and this new distribution doesn't need follow the Ubuntu. We may go
on new way.

Aleph