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Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Debian kernel cleanup


From: Karl Goetz
Subject: Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Debian kernel cleanup
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:04:35 +0930

On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 20:15 +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> Thanks for the followup.  I think Robert followed the chunks in the
> linux-libre deblob script rather than exploring the whole source
> himself.  This is already done in gNS, I should have noticed that.

> 
> For the Linux kernel specifically, I think that all fully free distros
> should unite around linux-libre.  The linux-libre project should
> provide a freed linux tarball which free distributions should use as
> "genuine upstream" tarball, rather than deploying custom deblob
> scripts and variations.

I belive much of the linux-libre script was based on brians deblob - i'm
fairly sure gNS now uses the linux-libre script as-is, without any
unique changes (the only exception to that may be ubuntu-modules
package, which may or may not be relevent to upstream).
kk

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Karl Goetz <address@hidden>

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