Karl Goetz wrote: > On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:42:41 -0300 > "Emiliano M. Rudenick" <emilianoruden...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> We don't have a free kernel in the archive yet, but you could >>> easily install linux-libre of your own accord. >>> thanks, >>> kk > >> The kernel that comes default in Debian Squeeze is completely free. > > The kernel produced by linux-libre, and the kernel produced by debian > differ. This doesn't inherantly mean debians kernel is meant to > be non-free, but it does mean there is some confusion between the > projects which will have to be worked out. If we can use debians kernel > unaltered thats fantastic, but i'm still trying to find someone who > knows kernels (not me) to compare them and tell us if thats ok. > thanks, > kk
AFAICT, the Debian kernel complies with the DFSG (or is extremely close). However, it retains drivers that require a firmware in order to be functional and where no free firmware currently exists for them. So if you don't considered Debian to be a "Free GNU/Linux distribution" then, I think, you won't considered the Debian kernel to be suitable for gNewSense. Regards, Mike. >> "Another first is the completely free Linux kernel, which no longer >> contains problematic firmware files. These were split out into >> separate packages and moved out of the Debian main archive into the >> non-free area of our archive, which is not enabled by default. In >> this way Debian users have the possibility of running a completely >> free operating system, but may still choose to use non-free firmware >> files if necessary." > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > gnewsense-us...@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
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