On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 05:02:52 +0200, arne wrote in message <20180710050252.3494d2af@fx4100>:
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 11:03:11 +0200 > KatolaZ <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 11:52:41PM +0200, aitor_czr wrote: > > > Hi again, > > > > > > El 08/07/18 a las 23:49, info at smallinnovations dot nl > > > escribió: > > > > I am not a kernel guy so maybe i am asking a stupid question; > > > > but what other parts besides the official kernel from kernel.org > > > > would you install? Or leave out? > > > > > > I would leave out binary blobs :) > > > > > > > The Debian kernel already comes stripped of any binary blob, at > > least since Squeeze was testing (i.e., since about 2009). Binary > > firmware packages have been available in the non-free component > > since them. If you don't install any of those non-free packages, > > your kernel is equivalent to the one provided by LinuxLibre, the > > only difference being that you can still load binary blobs if you > > wish so (while that is forbidden in the kernels released by > > LinuxLibre). > > > > What are we talking about, exactly? > > > > HND > > > > KatolaZ > > > > Hi, > > I don't remind which kernel. > but is was in the press for sure: > USA authorities were given a backdoor > in the kernel. > Could have been 2.6 > For security, fighting criminals whats however. > > There was absolutely no resistance in those days. > Not any. > > Foreign countries began to develop their own kernels. > > In those days I was into floppy distro's on old kernels so did not > bother very much. > But I remember it well. > > Yes I am a veteran in Linux stuff, into floppy distros like trinux > (cloud computing avant la lettre) > > John ...Hughes? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
