I'm going to backport it into Trisquel 2.1 (hardy based) immediately, it seems to be an excellent work!
Also, a 2.6.24 deblobber based in this work would be very useful, as it can be applied to the default kernel from both Trisquel and gNewSense. Kudos. Rubén El sáb, 21-03-2009 a las 17:51 -0300, Alexandre Oliva escribió: > Several months ago, I realized the existing releases of Linux-libre, > that removed non-Free Software present in Linux, still retained code and > documentation that induced users to install and use non-Free Software. > This means it wasn't fit for use in Free System Distributions. > > I started working to fix that bug back then. Today, I'm very excited to > announce, straight from the Libre Planet 2009 conference organized by > the FSF, the first version of Linux-libre that won't do that any more. > > The 2.6.28-libre1 release, and the patched 2.6.28.8-libre1 release, are > now available from http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/, bringing back several > drivers that used to be disabled before, and not disabling any driver > whatsoever. > > Some of the drivers we used to disable have been modified so that they > now report the lack of Free firmware, instead of requesting users to > load non-Free Software into their systems. These reports should be > useful for userland to pick up and report some useful, informative and > educational message to the user, explaining that their hardware is not > compatible with Free Software. > > Other drivers we used to disabled contained suspicious strings that had > been conservatively removed. Having verified the technical and legal > status of some of them, and having determined that some others weren't > code after all, this release brings them back in. Some WiFi interfaces > and video capture devices, will be functional with this new release. > > Other releases of Linux-libre, including past ones and the upcoming > 2.6.29, will certainly require additional work, but nothing even close > to the amount of work it took to get to this one. Thanks for your > patience. > > I'd also like to thank the FSF for offering us our new build and web > server, the first in which this release was prepared, and Jeff Moe, who > had paid for our previous server. > > Please report to [email protected] any problems you run into with > this release (other than compile errors in a few dvb drivers, I'm on > those already), and let us know of any case in which you believe I may > have removed something that could have been retained. > > Happier (and freer) hacking, :-) > _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
