On Wednesday 2008 December 10 16:57:39 Ron Johnson wrote: >On 12/10/08 16:53, Celejar wrote: >> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote: >>> On 12/10/08 16:10, Celejar wrote: >>>> "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.net> wrote: >>>>> On Wednesday 2008 December 10 15:15:56 lee wrote: >>>>>> what's the difference between a standard kernel and a kernel that >>>>>> comes as a Debian package? >>>>> >>>>> The Debian kernel has some non-free (as in: source not available) parts >>>>> removed. There are also Debian-specific patches added. >>>> >>>> The vanilla kernel has non-free stuff in it? I thought it's all GPL. >>> >>> Some drivers have firmware blobs encoded in them as really long byte >>> arrays. They are de jure GPL, but, practically, are closed source. >> >> And Debian removes these, even thought they're technically GPL? Any >> examples? > >Not that I know of (since I don't use WiFi or anything exotic). iwl3945 -- My personal cross to bear. :( -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss03@volumehost.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/
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