On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 11:03:11 +0200
KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 11:52:41PM +0200, aitor_czr wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > El 08/07/18 a las 23:49, info at smallinnovations dot nl escribió:
> > > I am not a kernel guy so maybe i am asking a stupid question; but
> > > what other parts besides the official kernel from kernel.org
> > > would you install? Or leave out?
> >
> > I would leave out binary blobs :)
> >
>
> The Debian kernel already comes stripped of any binary blob, at least
> since Squeeze was testing (i.e., since about 2009). Binary firmware
> packages have been available in the non-free component since them. If
> you don't install any of those non-free packages, your kernel is
> equivalent to the one provided by LinuxLibre, the only difference
> being that you can still load binary blobs if you wish so (while that
> is forbidden in the kernels released by LinuxLibre).
>
> What are we talking about, exactly?
>
> HND
>
> KatolaZ
>

Hi,

I don't remind which kernel.
but is was in the press for sure:
USA authorities were given a backdoor
in the kernel.
Could have been 2.6
For security, fighting criminals whats however.

There was absolutely no resistance in those days.
Not any.

Foreign countries began to develop their own kernels.

In those days I was into floppy distro's on old kernels so did not
bother very much.
But I remember it well.

Yes I am a veteran in Linux stuff, into floppy distros like trinux
(cloud computing avant la lettre)

John