I can't speak about what's in the kernel legitimately (meaning it's
there through free software). But I can tell you that Trisquel uses the
Linux-Libre kernel, which has been stripped of all non-free code. And
there are no non-free drivers supported by Trisquel natively (the
repositories do not carry them, they would have to be manually installed
from a .deb file).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux-libre
Trisquel is a free operating system (both in price, and in liberty).
All source code for everything in Trisquel is available. There is
nothing anywhere in any of its drivers or supportive code bases or
applications that does not have 100% source code available that you
could literally compile on your machine, and reproduce what you have
installed.
That being said ... are there actual, real, free software (with source
code, and rights to change it) trusted kernel modules within Linux?
There probably are. But, no matter where you go (with what Linux-based
distro) you'd find that then.
Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin
On 06/25/2012 05:34 PM, nodrm.e...@mailnull.com wrote:
I'm an XP Pro user looking to switch to Linux. I have asked on other
forums if there is any distro & kernel version that is 100% free of
this 'Trusted Computing' junk, and was recommended Trisquel. So my
first question here is can anyone confirm that Trisquel contains
absolutely no Trusted Computing kernel configuration items, modules,
drivers, etc.?
