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Author needs clue!Author needs clue!Posted Apr 9, 2008 20:42 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104)In reply to: Author needs clue! by jmorris42 Parent article: 10 things to consider when choosing a Linux distribution (TechRepublic) Fedora is free indeed. And even some of its version would recommend use of non-free software, Fedora has never included any proprietary drivers, as the article implies. In fact, I'm not aware of any distribution doing it currently, although many of us surely remember Kororaa LiveCD with proprietary video drivers. Kororaa doesn't exist anymore. Some of the references distributions go beyond what Fedora does and remove non-free blobs, i.e. compiled code without sources that is loaded into devices, but not run on the host CPU. That's an entirely different issue, but the author is confusing it with non-free drivers that do run on the host CPU, often with the kernel permissions. I didn't bother reading the rest.
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