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Between Fedora 12 and 13

Between Fedora 12 and 13

Posted Dec 13, 2009 19:46 UTC (Sun) by Xnux (guest, #62436)
In reply to: Between Fedora 12 and 13 by dlang
Parent article: Between Fedora 12 and 13

I'm not suggesting that we just drop all non-free firmware and ship that to everyone. Obviously, that would cause a huge amount of hardware to fail. I want a version of Fedora with no non-free firmware mostly for my own purposes, because I have hardware that can run on only free firmware and I do not desire to download proprietary firmware onto the CD that will install Fedora only to avoid using said firmware.

Projects like this already exist (e.g., gNewSense, Trisquel, BLAG, Freed-ora, Freed-ebian, etc.), but they are usually woefully behind the current releases of the distributions that they are based on (which are usually Debian/Ubuntu or Fedora). I want a distribution that combines Fedora's recent software packages and gNewSense's 100% software without having to settle for an out-of-date distribution (for example, gNewSense is still based on Ubuntu LTS, which is 8.04 Hardy Heron).


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