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Hi,
as some of you know work was being done to cut out the binary blobs from ubuntu to create a distro, well for a further update have a look here
http://www.gnewsense.org/Main/PressRelease20060825
Have a great weekend.
Regards,
Paul
Paul, I'm very interested in this. Two questions out of interest 1) What do you do with APCI as most hardware is not very useful without power-control and it seems that APCI is binary-only by design. 2) Any plans for a launchpad type system? The Genius of Ubuntu for me seems to be that they manage the project internally as a source based distro (think Gentoo) but only push binaries to the end users.
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:38:32PM +0100, A.J.Delaney@brighton.ac.uk wrote:
Paul, I'm very interested in this. Two questions out of interest
- What do you do with APCI as most hardware is not very useful without
power-control and it seems that APCI is binary-only by design.
At the moment we leave it as is. I'm not aware of any non-freeness with the ACPI parts of the kernel, but if there are please let us know.
- Any plans for a launchpad type system? The Genius of Ubuntu for me
seems to be that they manage the project internally as a source based distro (think Gentoo) but only push binaries to the end users.
At the moment we've a very simple build and bug tracking system. We intend to keep everything pretty simple - at least at this stage of the project and until we have a team that could build and support such infrastructure.
Brian