Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?

2017-06-15 Thread aconcernedfossdev
Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel? He is also violating the license grant, Courts would not be fooled by his scheme to prevent redistribution. The license grant the Linux Kernel is distributed

What is the current thinking in the Linux Kernel community on firmware blobs?

2014-09-09 Thread Brian Gupta
Obviously, consensus is that blobs were, and still are, essential for Linux's status as a popular commercially viable OS. I'm wondering at the same time if they are considered a necessary evil, and wonder if there would be support [1] to try to work together with vendors to free the firmware

Re: Questions about present Gnome and the Linux kernel versions

2009-07-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
2f7aa8780907071318v36bf6c66m721843817883a...@mail.gmail.com On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 10:18:43PM +0200, Kees de Jong wrote: I'm a satisfied Debian user for almost a year now. But a week ago I tried Ubuntu 9.04 and I discovered the features of the 2.6.28 kernel and the features of Gnome 2.26 and

Re: Questions about present Gnome and the Linux kernel versions

2009-07-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,07.Jul.09, 15:59:10, Kumar Appaiah wrote: P. S. I'd request someone who knows more than me to please write an FAQ answer for Why does Ubuntu have/do/... but not Debian? When will Debian have it?... type question. Something like this?

Re: Questions about present Gnome and the Linux kernel versions

2009-07-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 01:40:13PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,07.Jul.09, 15:59:10, Kumar Appaiah wrote: P. S. I'd request someone who knows more than me to please write an FAQ answer for Why does Ubuntu have/do/... but not Debian? When will Debian have it?... type question.

Re: Questions about present Gnome and the Linux kernel versions

2009-07-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 07 juillet 2009 à 22:18 +0200, Kees de Jong a écrit : So my question is pretty straightforward; are there plans to introduce these two great enhancements into the Debian project? No. We’ve decided that lenny would be our last release. And if they are when can I expect them? I've

Re: Questions about present Gnome and the Linux kernel versions

2009-07-07 Thread David Weinehall
be our last release. Josselin, sarcasm as a way of making a point is a two-edged sword, and in this case not really helpful. Save it for the flamewars on debian-devel and on planet.debian.org instead... To OP: Josselin is just being unhelpful; linux kernel 2.6.30 has already been integrated

Re: Questions about present Gnome and the Linux kernel versions

2009-07-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 10:18:43PM +0200, Kees de Jong wrote: I'm a satisfied Debian user for almost a year now. But a week ago I tried Ubuntu 9.04 and I discovered the features of the 2.6.28 kernel and the features of Gnome 2.26 and I was impressed. So my question is pretty straightforward;

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2007/9/12, Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [ Reply-to set to debian-project, debian-devel is not the place for such a discussion if people really want to have it ] On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Miriam Ruiz wrote: 2007/9/12, Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Miriam Ruiz

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Miriam Ruiz wrote: I'm not proposing anything... I said that IMO it's not worth discussing it. I just wanted you to acknowledge that some people can legitimately have other opinions and that your question was somewhat ignoring that fact. I never said they couldn't,

Re: WTF: Debian security, ex. Linux kernel vulnerabilities

2005-09-23 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Dave Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] [thread from -private; quotes trimmed to remove not explicitly declassified text] I believe Tim is using proxy to mean caching proxy, i.e. it can serve up content in its own right even if the source machine is unavailable. I believe Henning might be

SCTP on Linux kernel 2.4

2003-04-19 Thread Prabha, Arun
Title: SCTP on Linux kernel 2.4 Hi, I wish to know if you have any distribution (free or commercial) of Debian Linux that has SCTP (lksctp or other) with Linux Kernel 2.4 Thanks Regards, Arun P Nair

Re: linux kernel

2001-11-12 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 11:10:54AM +0100, Robert Ribnitz wrote: Second, there are two ways to get a 2.4.x (x12 have a local root exploit, x=14 has some problems with the ntfs driver among other things, so I recommend 2.4.12 or 2.4.13) to run on your system: Anything between 2.4.10 and

Re: linux kernel

2001-11-11 Thread Robert Ribnitz
of the linux kernel or compiling it. Greetings Theo Houtman Dear Mr Houtman, first of all please do not send html-mail, or mail with attachments to this list, since many people are unable to handle such mail. Second, there are two ways to get a 2.4.x (x12 have a local root exploit, x=14 has

linux kernel

2001-11-10 Thread Theo Houtman
the time to learn all the ins and outs of the linux kernel or compiling it. Greetings Theo Houtman _IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here

Re: linux kernel

2001-11-10 Thread Peter Makholm
Theo Houtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I like to complain about the debian distribution. You *can* complain all you want. Debian won't be release earlier because of that. Debian will be released when it's ready. The only thing that will help getting Debian released is by testing, finding bugs

Re: linux kernel

2001-11-10 Thread Jö Fahlke
simply don't have the time to learn all the ins and outs of the linux kernel or compiling it. Greetings Theo Houtman Adrian Bunk has made some inoffitial packages needed to run Potato with 2.4.* kernels. Have a look at http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html Jö. -- Das Leben ist eine

Re: linux kernel

2001-11-10 Thread Alexander List
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Peter Makholm wrote: I like to complain about the debian distribution. You *can* complain all you want. Debian won't be release earlier because of that. Debian will be released when it's ready. The only thing that will help getting Debian released is by testing, finding

Re: linux kernel

2001-11-10 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 07:43:57PM +0100, Alexander List wrote: If we don't stop answering user's requests/complaints in such an unfriendly manner, we will always have the image that Debian is a clumsy hackers-only distribution and not for the average user. Even if his claim that kernel 2.4

Re: linux kernel

2001-11-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 08:18:53PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 07:04:33PM +0100, Theo Houtman wrote: [whining about the lack of Linux 2.4.x in stable] [...] special to do that (but certain things like modutils and ipchains/netfilter may need updating, check the list