kernel-libre (hopefully 100% Free) for Fedora 8 and rawhide

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 19:20:10 UTC 2008


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
<dominik at greysector.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 March 2008 at 19:37, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>  > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
>  > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 09:08:56AM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>  > >   > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
>  > >   >
>  > >   > > This "well my system is ok, screw everyone else" approach is what I find
>  > >   > > so fundamentally broken in this idea.  Especially as the people advocating
>  > >   > > for this aren't those who get to deal with the fallout when users start
>  > >   > > filing bugs.
>  > >   > >
>  > >   >
>  > >   > I believe the stated goal is to package things in such a way that Alexandre
>  > >   > can then propose a separate spin that is libre by his definition. but has
>  > >   > the potential to carry the Fedora marks.
>  > >
>  > >  And then when people download that spin, and find their computer doesn't boot,
>  > >  who gets the bug reports ?
>  > >
>  >
>  > I would figure they would need to go to that spin's SIG/Committee. And
>  > the opening anaconda should clearly say that:
>  >
>  > Attempting to boot libre kernel. This will only work on hardware that
>  > is completely open and documented. All other hardware will be
>  > problematic. Contact kernel-libre at fedorahosted.org for more messages,
>  > and open bugs under FEDORA-LIBRE in bugzilla.fedorahosted.org.
>
>  Most people won't bother to read this or will forget this 5 minutes into
>  the installation process.
>

Most people don't bother to read anything. I know, I worked in support
for years. However, common stupidity is not an excuse to say Alexandre
can't form a SIG to for his specialized Spin.


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"




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