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1. Alexandre Oliva GNU's Not Unix , Free Software , Fundación Software Libre América Latina , GNU Linux-libre project , GNU/Linux-libre

   if you just can't wait any longer, !linuxlibre 3.0-rc7-libre sources are now available at http://ur1.ca/4r41e !gnu !gnull !fs !fsfla

   about 10 months ago from Emacs Identica-mode
   • Matija Šuklje repeated this.
   • Michał Masłowski

     @lxoliva nice work; is there a reason for not completely removing wifi drivers not working without nonfree firmware?

     about 10 months ago
   • Alexandre Oliva Michał Masłowski

     @mtjm some drivers support multiple cards, but only some of which require non-Free firmware, so we had to support partial clean-ups

     about 10 months ago
   • Alexandre Oliva Michał Masłowski

     @mtjm since the wifi drivers in question are Free Software, we might as well use this machinery to disable only the inducement to non-Free

     about 10 months ago
   • Alexandre Oliva Michał Masłowski

     @mtjm then users get a message such as “missing Free firmware”, rather than silent failure to recognize the card

     about 10 months ago
   • Alexandre Oliva Michał Masłowski

     @mtjm also, we have plans (but not much demand) to enable users install and use the blobs, just without ask them to do so

     about 10 months ago
   • Michał Masłowski

     @lxoliva the plans completely answer my question and emphasize the aim of the project; just having Intel wifi driver on YeeLoong is strange

     about 10 months ago
   • Alexandre Oliva Michał Masłowski

     @mtjm I'm not smart enough to tell what drivers can be configured out for not being available as add-ons, so they're all on

     about 10 months ago