[clue-tech] Fedora 11 released

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Peter
Kuykendall<peterkuykendall at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Fedora is among the purest, the most committed to Freedom of all the
>> popular distributions.
>
...  it's refreshing to see that there are real efforts to create
truly free distros,
> even to the point of excising nonfree code from the kernel.  And it is
> possible to buy wireless cards and dongles that can be driven by free code.
>

I, too, value free software, but not at the cost of disabling existing
hardware components or indeed bastardizing the kernel. I prefer
distros that ship free software but also provide bullet-proof ways to
download, install, and maintain the (still) necessary binary blobs
that make life easier. In the Brave New World of the future there may
not be a need for binary blobs, but we're not there yet, and I doubt
that purging useful software will help us get there any quicker.

-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.