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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20100919/7ab3b5bb/attachment-0001.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20100919/7ab3b5bb/attachment-0001.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ef9e916bc --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20100919/7ab3b5bb/attachment-0001.html @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">People,<br><br>Now that the distro is starting, it's easier to define the course of the project. We have to make sure we're doing the right thing.<br><br>Something to be discussed is whether the distro will follow the guidelines of the FSF and have only free software on it. This is something to be widely discussed: support for the Stallman's group could be very advantageous, but would sacrifice the end user experience. Proprietary software could be placed in a separate repository. Another point is that according GPL, all source code should be available.<br><br>But something the distro MUST have as an option to the user - that would bring a lot of free software activists for our side - regardless of the choice to be made in relation to this requirement as is the ability to install your kernel linux-libre .<br><br>Basically, linux-libre is a fork of the Linux + kernel maintained by the FSF Latin America that has no binary blobs. Currently, there are very few distros that offer it.<br><br>I believe he should be in the repositories or on the installation media, where the user can install a system with it by typing something like "install = libre" or something similar at boot time of this media. Of course, we offer regular Linux kernel as default.<br><br>For more information, see: http://www.fsfla.org/svnwiki/selibre/linux-libre/</td></tr></table><br> + + + +
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