great job my friend will take a look.
cheers to all from brazil! 2009/3/21 Rubén Rodríguez <[email protected]> > 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, :-) > > > > > > -- 1111.1010.r.i.1101|n.o.i.s.1110|i.m.1010.g.1110|مقاومة fsf member #5439 usuario GNU/Linux #471966 <a href="www.atelier-labs.org">atelier-labs</a> <a href="www.mocambos.net">rede mocambos</a> <a href="http://www.gnu.org";>GNU</a> <a href="www.archlinux-br.org">archlinux brasil</a>
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