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

[Filipe Saraiva]

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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