> -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [Mageia-discuss] Should Mageia have linux-libre kernel? > Yes! > From: atilla ontas <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, September 20, 2010 12:25 pm > To: Mageia general discussions <[email protected]> > > > 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 <[email protected]> > > > It would be good to give this to the user. I agree with her. > > > > Em 19 de setembro de 2010 17:50, André Machado < > > [email protected]> 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/ > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mageia-discuss mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss > >> > >>
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 _______________________________________________ Mageia-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss
