Linux-libre
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According to the Free Software Foundation Latin America, Linux-libre is a modified version of the Linux kernel that contains no binary blobs, obfuscated code, or code released under proprietary licenses. In the Linux kernel, those types of code are mostly used for proprietary firmware images. While generally redistributable, they do not give the user the freedom to audit, modify, or, consequently, redistribute their modified versions. The GNU Project keeps Linux-libre in synchronization with the mainline Linux kernel.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Linux-libre
- Software.title
- Linux-libre
- Software.logo
- 150px|Freedo, official mascot of Linux-libre
- Software.logo caption
- Freedo the penguin, mascot of the Linux-libre kernel
- Software.screenshot
- Linux-Libre 3.0.66-1 Boot.png
- Software.caption
- Linux-libre kernel 3.0.66-1 booting
- Software.developer
- Free Software Foundation Latin America
- Software.programming language
- C and Assembly
- Software.language
- English
- Software.platform
- x86-64, i386, IA-32, ARM (Parabola), MIPS (Debian), m68k, RISC-V, IBM POWER8 and above
- Software.license
- GPL-2.0-only
- Software.author
- Linus Torvalds et al.
- Software.genre
- Kernel
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
::[FSFLA]:: GNU Linux-libre project
linux-libre.fsfla.org →Link to the official site · 40,000 chars · not written by Vinony
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- History
- Proprietary firmware removal
- Methods
- Benefits
- Hardware support
- Microcode
- Availability
- Distributions
- Distributions in which Linux-libre is the default kernel
- Distributions that compile a free Linux kernel
- Linux-libre as an alternative kernel
- See also
- References
- External links
According to the Free Software Foundation Latin America, Linux-libre is a modified version of the Linux kernel that contains no binary blobs, obfuscated code, or code released under proprietary licenses. In the Linux kernel, those types of code are mostly used for proprietary firmware images. While generally redistributable, they do not give the user the freedom to audit, modify, or, consequently, redistribute their modified versions. The GNU Project keeps Linux-libre in synchronization with the mainline Linux kernel.
== History == The Linux kernel started to include binary blobs in 1996. The work to clear out the binary blobs began in 2006 with gNewSense's find-firmware and gen-kernel. This work was taken further by the BLAG Linux distribution in 2007 when deblob and Linux-libre was born.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Linux-libre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.