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

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

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.

Regards,
R.

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