Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 <at> yahoo.com> writes:
> A Because Fedora includes Firmware and those guys don't.
Bullsh*t!
BLAG 70000 ships:
* the original Fedora 7 kernels as the default and kernel-libre only as an
option,
* the following firmwares: asterisk-firmware, atmel-firmware, ivtv-firmware,
iwl3945-firmware, iwl4965-firmware, iwlwifi-firmware (old version of
iwl3945-firmware), ql2100-firmware, ql2200-firmware, ql23xx-firmware and
ql2400-firmware, all with "License: Redistributable, no modification permitted"
* zd1211-firmware which claims to be GPLv2, but with no source available.
So the only difference between Fedora and BLAG in their current state is that
BLAG is 2 releases out of date, which also implies there are no security
updates from Fedora anymore for the software they ship, and I wouldn't rely on
BLAG for security updates if I were you. For example, there is no bind update
for the recent DNS security issue, nor any other updates since June 13. I
consider it completely irresponsible to recommend a distribution whose "current
release" has not received ANY security updates for a month!
Kevin Kofler
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