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Fully Free GNU/Linux Presentation Next Week

05-Feb-10

I will be giving a talk about the fully free GNU/Linux distribution movement in the Free Software Foundation Europe’s Berlin meeting on Thursday, February 11th, next week. The talk will start at 19:30 in the Newthinking Store, Tucholskystraße 48. Hopefully, we will have a chance to continue discussing the topic over a few beers right [...]

Laptop Hacking a la Frankenstein

14-Jul-09

I had a cheap MSI laptop lying around with no functioning hard disk or CD drive for a while. I have tried switching HDDs, yet it continued failing to find a drive, so I’m guessing there was a motherboard trouble involved. (Though I’m a sub-newbie when it comes to PC internals.) Today’s been a slow [...]

Linux-libre: now with a boot mascot!

20-Apr-09

Recently, there has been some activity at the Linux-libre mailing list to create a Linux-libre mascot. Coincidentally, I have been considering adding a custom boot logo to the Freedom Shoppe kernel packages just before the discussion started. So, I decided to wait until there is a nice logo posted instead of using a crude design [...]

Linux-libre 2.6.29 for Debian, Ubuntu and gNewSense

13-Apr-09

I have just uploaded installation packages of Linux-libre 2.6.29.1 that you can find here. They should install and run fine on Debian Lenny, Ubuntu Hardy/Intrepid and gNewSense deltah.

The Linux-libre Project purges Linux releases from non-free binary blobs. It also just started guaranteeing users’ freedom by not loading external binary-only firmware that was possible in previous [...]

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