GNU Linux-libre 4.3-gnu is now available

From: Alexandre Oliva Subject: GNU Linux-libre 4.3-gnu is now available Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 04:40:10 -0200 User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

GNU Linux-libre 4.3-gnu sources and tarballs are now available at <http://www.fsfla.org/selibre/linux-libre/download/releases/4.3-gnu/>. There were no deblobbing changes since -rc7-gnu, released about a day ago. Binaries are expected to show up over the next few days. Beware of Intel and Qualcomm/Atheros Bluetooth, Intel Skylake sound, Intel HFI1 Infiniband, STMicro c8sectpfe dvb platform and Samsung s3fwrn5 NFC: the new drivers for all of them require blobs in upstream release 4.3. The requests are disabled in GNU Linux-libre 4.3-gnu. New blobs are required by amdgpu and mwifiex, and adjustments were required for nouveau. For up-to-the-minute news, join us on #linux-libre of irc.gnu.org (Freenode), or follow me (@lxoliva) on Twister <http://twister.net.co/> or pump.io <http://identi.ca/lxoliva/>. Be Free! with GNU Linux-libre. WHAT IS GNU Linux-libre? GNU Linux-libre is a Free version of the kernel Linux (see below), suitable for use with the GNU Operating System in 100% Free GNU/Linux-libre System Distributions. http://www.gnu.org/distros/ It removes non-Free components from Linux, that are disguised as source code or distributed in separate files. It also disables run-time requests for non-Free components, shipped separately or as part of Linux, and documentation pointing to them, so as to avoid (Free-)baiting users into the trap of non-Free Software. http://www.fsfla.org/anuncio/2010-11-Linux-2.6.36-libre-debait Linux-libre started within the gNewSense GNU/Linux distribution. It was later adopted by Jeff Moe, who coined its name, and in 2008 it became a project maintained by FSF Latin America. In 2012, it became part of the GNU Project. The GNU Linux-libre project takes a minimal-changes approach to cleaning up Linux, making no effort to substitute components that need to be removed with functionally equivalent Free ones. Nevertheless, we encourage and support efforts towards doing so. http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LinuxLibre:Devices_that_require_non-free_firmware Our mascot is Freedo, a light-blue penguin that has just come out of the shower. Although we like penguins, GNU is a much greater contribution to the entire system, so its mascot deserves more promotion. See our web page for their images. http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/ WHAT IS LINUX? Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel [...] (snipped from the README in the source distribution of GNU Linux-libre) -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist|Red Hat Brasil GNU Toolchain Engineer

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