On 9/6/06, Danny Ching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Drivers and source codes are the leat of our problems. A lot of companies provide them for linux.
Our problem mainly lies on the fact that the opportunity of getting any kind of computer hardware _for free_ is so hard to come by :P
I've tried downloading the sources and binaries of some of these drivers. The problem is it needs to be compiled first. Then it has to be activated as a module to the kernel. I once had the opportunity to see a warning to the effect that I'm using a "tainted kernel" simply because the module was not open source but rather, a binary file.
Yes, kernel tainting happens when some module gets loaded that has a `License' field other than the known licenses. IIRC Linuxant had this fiasco where they used the string "GPL\0" in an effort to say that some parts are GPL'd... -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
