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A quick look at what's new in Fedora 7

A quick look at what's new in Fedora 7

Posted Apr 26, 2007 9:01 UTC (Thu) by hadess (subscriber, #24252)
Parent article: A quick look at what's new in Fedora 7

And it has freely redistributable firmwares for all the Intel wireless cards. Better out-of-the-box experience!


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A quick look at what's new in Fedora 7

Posted Apr 26, 2007 10:10 UTC (Thu) by mjw (subscriber, #16740) [Link]

"freely redistributable", but proprietary closed source binary blobs? If so that would be a step back for Fedora while Ubuntu if finally seeing the light with a full free distro for the next release.

A quick look at what's new in Fedora 7

Posted Apr 26, 2007 13:06 UTC (Thu) by Soruk (guest, #2722) [Link]

How does Ubuntu (plan to) support these Intel wireless cards?

A quick look at what's new in Fedora 7

Posted May 3, 2007 16:11 UTC (Thu) by bdw (guest, #16047) [Link]

What they currently do is offer a repository so you can download those drivers. It's disabled by default.

IMHO, I think Fedora should so something similar to minimize the amount of black magic for those that are new to Linux. :)

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