Eu o direciono para este tópico que discute Freed-ora. Isso é mencionado na página da Wikipédia Linux-Libre como um subprojeto que fornece RPMs dos kernels Linux-Libre para Fedora 19.
Parece que eles estão discutindo ativamente apenas essa ideia e que está sendo trabalhada ativamente para o (RHEL 7 / CentOS 7) que são derivados do Fedora 19, então essa abordagem faria sentido usando essas distros.
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Hello All
I'm running the public RHEL 7 beta on this laptop that has an Atheros wifi card that uses the ath5k driver. That driver is fully free and requires no firmware. The graphics is Intel as well, so fully free works fine on this Thinkpad x61s.
Red Hat have removed support for some of the older wifi cards including Ath5k, so I downloaded the libre kernel for Fedora 19 (on which RHEL 7 is based) from
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and installed it. Works fine. With wifi :-)
This got me thinking as to the possibility of adapting the Freed-ora repositories/method to a CentOS/Scientific Linux/Springdale Linux install. The advantage being much longer support cycle for any one release, while retaining the yum/rpm packaging system that people seem to value.
Am I talking rubbish here?