On 12/10/08 16:10, Celejar wrote:
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:05:26 -0600
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 2008 December 10 15:15:56 lee wrote:
what's the difference between a standard kernel and a kernel that
comes as a Debian package?
The Debian kernel has some non-free (as in: source not available) parts
removed. There are also Debian-specific patches added.
The vanilla kernel has non-free stuff in it? I thought it's all GPL.
Some drivers have firmware blobs encoded in them as really long byte
arrays. They are de jure GPL, but, practically, are closed source.
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What different abilities do I have?
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