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GNU Linux-libre, Free as in Freedo
Linux, the kernel developed and distributed by Linus Torvalds et al, contains non-Free Software, i.e., software that does not respect your
essential freedoms
, and it induces you to install additional non-Free Software that it doesn't contain. Even after allegedly moving all firmware to a separate project as of release 4.14, Linux so-called "sources" published by Mr Torvalds still contain non-Free firmware disguised as source code.
Few people realize Linux is not free. The same thing happens to Stux,
this cute penguin.
GNU Linux-libre
is a project to maintain and publish 100% Free distributions of Linux, suitable for use in
Free
System Distributions
, removing software that is included without source code, with obfuscated or obscured source code, under non-Free Software licenses, that do not permit you to change the software so that it does what you wish, and that induces or requires you to install additional pieces of non-Free Software.
Our releases can be easily adopted by 100% Free GNU/Linux distros, as well as by their users, by distros that want to enable their users to choose freedom, and by users of those that don't.
Although
UTUTO-e
was the first GNU/Linux distro to remove non-Free portions of Linux, GNU Linux-libre follows and improves on the practices established by
gNewSense
and
BLAG
Free Software Foundation Latin America (FSFLA)
joined the (then non-GNU) Linux-libre project as part of its campaign dubbed
"¡Sé Libre!"
, to encourage and enable users to go beyond using some Free Software, and rather seek and choose freedom.
Downloads
releases
: source tarballs tracking upstream releases, from which we removed blobs and code that induces users to install non-Free Software.
git repository
carries tagged releases, scripts, and logs, in a far more compact form than the above.
SIGNING-KEY
: The
GnuPG
keys used to sign source tarballs, patches, Freed-ora packages, and the keys that sign other repositories. For each repository R, there's a corresponding SIGNING-KEY.R in
the download tree
Freesh
: .debs for various architectures of the latest sources available.
Read more.
RPM Freedom
: .rpms for Fedora, CentOS, RHEL and its derivatives.
Read more.
libeRTy
: .debs compiled with the PREEMPT_RT patch for realtime operation on 32- and 64-bit x86 CPUs.
Read more.
freed-ora
: .rpms packages tracking Fedora kernel builds.
Read more.
Mirrors
: The repositories above are available from our network of mirrors too.
Other binaries
: There are other distributions of GNU Linux-libre binaries from third parties. We maintain a
list
News
2026-04-12 - GNU Linux-libre 7.0-gnu
Cleaned up IWLMLD. Updated deblobbing of amdgpu, adreno, TI PRUeth,
air_en8811h, ath12k, TI VPE, rtw8852b, rt1320, rt5575 SPI, tas2783,
Intel catpt. Cleaned up devicetree documentation files for Airoha
NPU, Qualcomm/Atheros Bluetooth, and TI hms-m4fss. Cleaned up
assorted dts files. Reordered rt5514 cleaning up, unchanged.
2026-02-08 - GNU Linux-libre 6.19-gnu
Cleaned up newly-added firmware loading support in SDCA sound.
Dropped cleaning up of STM C8SECTPFE DVB driver, removed upstream.
Adjusted cleaning up of Intel XE, Nova-Core, Qualcomm Iris, Venus and
Q6V5, TI PRUeth, Intel iwlwifi, Marvell mwifiex, FourSemi fs210x,
Realtek rt1320 and TI tas2783 sound codecs, because of new blob names.
Cleaned up assorted dts files, reorganizing them in the process.
2025-12-17 - Support GNU Linux-libre!
If you'd like to support GNU Linux-libre, please
donate
to the Free
Software Foundation, that hosts our primary server, and
become an
associate member
if you
can.
2025-11-30 - GNU Linux-libre 6.18-gnu
Cleaned up new drivers for FourSemi fs2104/5s, TI TAS2783, and
Qualcomm GENI. Adjusted for upstream changes in Nova-Core, Intel XE,
TI PRUeth, and Marvell WiFi-Ex. Dropped TI WL1273. Adjusted for
Lantiq GSWIP's new location. Neutered blobs in devicetree files for
Qualcomm, Mediatek and TI ARM64 devices.
2025-09-28 - GNU Linux-libre 6.17-gnu
Adjusted deblobbing of amdgpu, prueth, iwlwifi, btusb, pci mhi host,
adreno a6xx, nova-core, and Intel AVS. Adjusted for pci hda drivers'
moving upstream. Cleaned up Intel IPU7 and assorted aarch64 devicetree
files. Dropped deblobbing of QLogic infiniband, removed upstream.
2025-07-27 - GNU Linux-libre 6.16-gnu
Cleaned up new drivers for Intel qat 6xxx crypto, ST vd55g1 sensor,
ath12k AHB wifi, Aeonsemi AS21xxx and MediaTek 25Gb ethernet PHY, as
well as new Qualcomm and MediaTek ARM64 devicetree files. Adjusted
cleaning up of Intel microcode loader docs, Nova Core and Nouveau
drivers for Nvidia GPUs, Realtek r8169 ethernet, Qualcomm Iris and
Venus video decoders, Mediatek mt7996 wifi, Qualcomm ath11k and ath12k
wifi, Texas Instruments tas2781 codec and speaker amplifier, Renesas
R-Car gen4 PCIe controller doc. Integrated build fix for Rust
firmware loader (thanks!), and Intel VPU, AMD GPU, and btusb blob
names already backported into stable 6.15.*-gnu releases during the
6.16-gnu development cycle.
2025-05-25 - GNU Linux-libre 6.15-gnu
Cleaned up nova core gpu (broken, help needed with Rust!), Qualcomm
iris v4l2, Airoha NPU, Tehuti Networks TN40xx 10G ethernet, Realtek
8814A wifi, Apple Silicon SoC touchscreen, Renesas UFS hooks, and
aw88166 audio drivers. Dropped Spider 1Gb ethernet driver, like
upstream. Cleaned up links to SOF (Tivoized) binaries.
2025-03-24 - GNU Linux-libre 6.14-gnu
Cleaned up new drivers hx9023s, amdxdna, tas2781 spi, and blob names
in dts files. Adjusted deblobbing of Intel avs, amdgpu, r8169,
mt7996, iwlwifi. Dropped cleaning up of wl128x, removed upstream.
2025-01-19 - GNU Linux-libre 6.13-gnu
Cleaned up new drivers rtw8812a, rtw8821a, bmi270, aw88081, ntp8835,
ntp8918. Cleaned up assorted blob names in dts files. Updated
deblobbing of wilc1000, rt1320, sh4-siu, ivpu, btnxpuart, adreno,
r8169, x86 touchscreen, cs35l56 docs. Dropped cleaning up of
rtl8192e, rtl8712, vt6656, ti-st, removed upstream.
2024-11-18 - GNU Linux-libre 6.12-gnu
Cleaned up CPM/QE QMC SoC, Realtek 8852BE-VT wifi, amlogic bt protocol
support, amcc qt2025 phy, aw96103/aw96105 proximity sensor, TI
TLV320AIC31XX codecs. Updated cleaning up of Renesas xHCI
controllers, and of Intel ISH HID. Updated blob names to clean up in
MHI PCI host, Adreno 620/621, r8169, qcom q6v5, rtw8852c, rtw8922a.
Dropped cleaning up of ks7010 and Intel SkyLake, removed upstream.
Cleaned up blob names in TI PRU am642 and qcom arm64 dts files.
Cleaned up new GPLed program disguised as a sequence of hex humbers.
2024-09-15 - GNU Linux-libre 6.11-gnu
Cleaned up amdgpu isp, tn40, rtl8192du, cs40l50, rt1320,
pcie-rcar-gen4, and new AArch64 devicetree files. Updated cleaning up
of amdgpu, adreno, vgxy61, atomisp, btnxpuart, prueth, tas2781. Added
nowait-nowarn version of the firmware loading/rejecting primitives.
Added detection of firmware-loading primitives in Rust.
2024-07-14 - GNU Linux-libre 6.10-gnu
Intel i915, rtl8xxxu, QCAI sahara cleaning up adjusted over moved
source code upstream. New files in Adreno, Intel IPU3, and PRUEth
drivers had blob references cleaned up. New drivers for Panthor,
Intel IPU6, PRUEth SR1, rtw8703b, tps23881, air_en8811h, Intel ISH
HID, and pcm6240 had blob names and requests removed. Prism2.5/3 USB
driver is no longer cleaned up, because it was removed upstream.
Adjusted cleaning up of blob name in qla2xxx driver due to formatting
change. Cleaned up various new AArch64 devicetree files. Erratum a
(6.10-gnua) fixes errors triggered by upstream changes, in cleaned-up
bits we hadn't modified, namely a qla2xxx Kconfig error, and a couple
of i915 warnings that may be turned into errors.
2024-05-12 - GNU Linux-libre 6.9-gnu
Cleaned up new ptp_fc3 driver. Updated cleaning up of amdgpu,
ath12k, adreno, btusb, r8169, and of various AArch64 devicetree files.
Adjusted for changes around an hex-encoded sourceless blob. Fixed
i915 initialization freeze, backports expected shortly.
2024-03-10 - GNU Linux-libre 6.8-gnu
Dropped cleaning of upstream-removed drivers atmel, hermes,
orinoco_usb, libertas_cs, zd1201. Cleaned up drivers for Intel
qat_420xx, Imagination PowerVR, Intel Xe, Chips&Media Wave5, Intel
VSC, Aquantia PHY, Realtek rtw8922a. Updated cleaning up of coda.
Cleaned up blob names in new ARM and AArch64 devicetree files.
Adjusted wording in .deb packaging. Attempted
fix for
i915
2024-01-29 - Mirror in Australia
Thanks to DiffieHellman for contributing mirror in Australia.
2024-01-07 - GNU Linux-libre 6.7-gnu (To Scale)
Dropped cops localtalk and rtl8192u wifi cleaning up, removed
upstream. (Several other blobs remain there, alas.) Adjusted amdgpu,
nouveau, adreno, mwifiex, mt7988, ath11k, avs, btqca. Cleaned up
aarch64 dts files's mentions of blobs. Cleaned up new mt7925,
tps6598x, aw87390, aw88399 drivers. Reverted excessive but harmless
cleaning up in xhci-pci, rtl8xxxu, and rtw8822b, that accidentally
made to some past releases.
2023-12-11 - GNU Linux-libre 6.6.6-gnu (Bedevilled)
Freedo poses in a devil costume with GNU horns to celebrate 6.6.6-gnu.
GNU shines above all, whether the kernel is BSD or Linux.
This stable release is Free Software as usual and expected. The
codename is about the costume, and the funny cognitive dissonance that
might arise by citing a BSD icon in the context of GNU Linux-libre and
GNU.
2023-10-30 - GNU Linux-libre 6.6-gnu
Adjusted for upstream changes to x86 microcode loaders, Intel avs,
-Werror, and rpm spec file changes. Cleaned up drivers for TI gigabit
RU ethernet, MediaTek 792x wifi, Cirrus Logic cs42l43 mfd, cs35l56
HD-audio side codec, aw88261 SoC audio. Cleaned new blob names
Qualcomm AArch64 dts files, in ivpu accelerator, in bluetooth drivers,
in x86 touchscreen driver, and in Qualcomm Venus V4L2 video
encoder/decoder.
2023-09-01 - New mirror at repo.jing.rocks
Thanks to Jing for the new mirror in Japan!
2023-08-27 - GNU Linux-libre 6.5-gnu
Reworked cleaning up of iwlwifi to reflect revamp of blob names in it.
Adjusted the cleaning scripts to account for cleaned up ARM dts files'
moving in the "source" tree. Cleaned up the usual assortment of new
dts files that declare dependencies on binary blobs. Updated cleaning
up of amdgpu, adreno, rtl8xxxu, and x86 touchscreen, and of atomisp
docs. Cleaned up new driver for rtw8851b, and for tas2781 speaker.
2023-06-25 - GNU Linux-libre 6.4-gnu (
When I'm Six Point Four
Adjusted cleaning up of x86 microcode docs, x86 Android tablets and
QAT crypto drivers to account for moved files in the source tree.
Dropped cleaning up of vs6624 driver, removed upstream. Neutered
op-tee's, rtl8710b's and qcom's Cloud AI blob loaders. Cleaned up
bluetooth nxp protocol support. Cleaned up blob names in qcom aarch64
dts files.
2023-04-23 - GNU Linux-libre 6.3-gnu
Cleaned up new drivers for ath12k, aw88395, and peb2466, and new
devicetree files for aarch64 qcom devices. Adjusted for changes
amdgpu, xhci-rcar, qcom-q6v5-pas; for undeprecation of sp8870, av7110,
and Budget dvb cards; for the upstream removal of mga, r128, tm6000,
cpia2, and r8188eu; for reformatting of documentation files; for
drivers moved into accelerator/; for wording changes in build scripts;
for separate precompiled BPF files. Ported the fix for the deblobbed
i915 driver.
2023-04-21 - Freedo joins the Fediverse
Jason Self and I agreed to set up a
Freedo
profile in the
Fediverse, for GNU Linux-libre announcements and related topics.
2023-03-12 - i915 deblobbing bug fix
Initializing the i915 driver when using certain Intel i915 GPU
variants appears to freeze the system: there is an infinite loop of
disarmed (unsatisfiable) blob loading attempts in 6.1.
-gnu (up to
6.1.18-gnu) and 6.2.
-gnu (up to 6.2.5-gnu). See
this
thread
for a workaround (that bypasses the loop but disables GPU
acceleration), to confirm whether your GPU is affected, and for a
patch, that fixes the problem without disabling GPU acceleration. The
fix is slated for inclusion in upcoming releases, presumably
6.1.19-gnu, 6.2.6-gnu, and 6.3-rc*-gnu.
2023-03-01 - Free Software Supporter
The FSF is thankful for fifteen years of maintenance work, which
provides the community with a reliable (and reliably free!) version
of the kernel Linux for the GNU operating system. Such work by the
Linux-libre maintainers helps to power all of the freedom-respecting
distros, and thereby helps those of us who aim to drive our hardware
with fully free software.
--
FSF
We thank the FSF for the server, continued support and for the kind
mention.
2023-02-25 - Wrapping up the 15y anniversary celebration week
FSFLA publishes an
announcement
wrapping up the week of celebration of the 15th anniversary of the GNU
Linux-libre project, as we make a
black-and-white commemorative
wallpaper
svg
with
classic Freedo dressed up for the
party
svg
).
2023-02-19 - GNU Linux-libre 6.2-gnu (la quinceañera)
Cleaned up new blob requests in nouveau gpu. Adjusted cleaning up of
radeon gpu, mt7921 wifi. Cleaned up blob in vgxy61 driver. Disabled
blob requests in drivers for mt7622, mt7996 wifi and bcm4377
bluetooth, and blob names in several new aarch64 dts files. Updated
blob names in too many drivers to mention. Dropped s5k4ecgx cleaning
up, the driver was removed. Dropped commented-out notes and code
about not cleaning up pcmcia configuration file requests and SOF free
firmware requests.
2022-12-17 - Freed-ora is history
With the EOLing of Fedora 35,
Freed-ora
has become
inactive, after almost 15 years building freed versions of Fedora's
blob-ridden kernels. For Fedora users interested in software freedom,
we now recommend
RPMFreedom
kernel builds. Thanks to
the various supporters of this subproject over the years.
2022-12-11 - GNU Linux-libre 6.1-gnu
Adjusted deblobbing of amdgpu, i915, brcmfmac, r8188eu, rtw8852c, Intel ACPI
sound. Adjusted deblobbing of deprecated drivers for tm6000 TV cards,
cpia2 v4l, and sp8870, av7110, and budget media cards. Cleaned up new
rtw8852b driver, and blob names from multiple new Qualcomm and
MediaTek AArch64 dts files.
2022-10-02 - GNU Linux-libre 6.0-gnu (
-ETOOSIXY
Disabled blob requests in UCSI interface driver for STM32G0, and in
CS35L41 HD-audio driver side codec. Moved MediaTek MT76 mcu blob
request disabling to the refactored connac library. Cleaned up blob
names from multiple new Qualcomm and MediaTek AArch64 dts files.
Updated cleaning up of blob names and requests in AMDGPU, Adreno,
Tegra VIC, Netronome NFP, and Habanalabs Gaudi2 drivers. Dropped
cleaning up of VXGE driver removed upstream.
2022-07-31 - GNU Linux-libre 5.19-gnu (Uhura)
Dropped cleaning up of ATM Ambassador driver dropped upstream. Moved
HDCP helper and Mellanox Core deblobbing under their own
newly-introduced kconfig tags. Cleaned up new pureLiFi X/XL/XC and TI
AMx3 Wkup-M3 IPC drivers. Adjusted cleaning up of Silicon Labs WFX,
moved out of staging. Updated cleaning up of AMD amdgpu, Qualcomm
WCNSS Peripheral Image Loader, Realtek Bluetooth, Mellanox Spectrum,
Marvell WiFi-Ex, and Intel AVS, IFS and ipu3-imgu drivers, and of
Qualcomm AArch64 devicetree files. Accept new Sound Open Firmware
naming conventions.
2022-05-22 - GNU Linux-libre 5.18-gnu
Cleaned up new drivers for MIPI DBI panels, Amphion VPU, MediaTek
MT7986 WMAC, Mediatek MT7921U (USB) and Realtek 8852a and 8852c WiFi,
Intel AVS, and Texas Instruments TAS5805M speaker amplifier, and new
DTS files for various Qualcomm AArch64 SoCs. Updated cleaning up of
drivers for AMD GPUs, MediaTek MT7915 and Silicon Labs WF200+ WiFi,
Mellanox Spectrum wired ethernet, Realtek rtw8852c, Qualcomm Q6V5 and
Wolfson ADSP, MediaTek HCI UART. Adjusted cleaning up for code
movement in various media drivers, MHI bus, and AMD GPUs.
2022-03-21 - GNU Linux-libre 5.17-gnu
Updated cleaning up logic for tegra, bnx2x, mt7915, btmtk, mscc, and
added logic for new dts files for various new aarch64 SoCs, and for a
new driver for x86 android tablets.
2022-01-09 - GNU Linux-libre 5.16-gnu
Cleaned up mt7921s and rtw89 (8852a) wifi, ili210x touchscreen, i.MX
dsp rproc, qdsp6 audio, and aarch64 qcom. Added
firmware_reject_builtin, unified reject_firmware and
reject_firmware_nowarn cleanup shell functions.
2021-10-31 - GNU Linux-libre 5.15-gnu
Added log message on successful completion of cleaning-up. Fixed
mkspec packaging. Adjusted snap packaging. Fixed some firmware.h
warnings. Backported these to active stable branches, already present
in last week's releases. Allowed warnings introduced by cleaning up
(format-extra-args, comments, unused-function and unused-variable)
even with newly-introduced configuration that enables -Werror.
Updated cleaning up of adreno, btusb, btintel, brcmfmac, aarch64 qcom.
Dropped cleaning up of drivers prism54 (removed) and rtl8188eu
(replaced by r8188eu). Added cleaning up of gehc-achc.
2021-10-15 - gnulinux.si -> flossmirror.org
Jan Prunk is replacing the gnulinux.si mirror with
linux-libre.flossmirror.org
Thanks to Jan and all other mirror maintainers.
2021-09-27 - Removing obsolete releases and repositories
We celebrate the 38th anniversary of the GNU Project and of the Free
Software movement by removing
past releases found to contain nonfree
software
Their cleaning-up scripts remain available from the git repository,
and from
releases/old/gen6
We're also removing long-obsolete repositories that still contained
builds of those and of even earlier releases. Instead of freed-ebian
and planet, we recommend
Freesh
. Instead of rt, we
recommend
LibeRTy
. A freeloong replacement might be added
to Freesh if there's enough demand.
Freed-ora repositories for recent Fedora releases remain available,
but we're still looking for new maintainers for Freed-ora.
2021-08-30 - GNU Linux-libre 5.14-gnu, and -gnu1 respins
Cleaned up long-missed vs6624 sensors and powerpc 8xx micropatches.
Improved x86 microcode-related cleaning-up. (Respun 5.13, 5.10, 5.4,
4.19, 4.14, 4.9, and 4.4 as -gnu1 with these and other backports.)
Cleaned up new eftc driver, and new qcom arm64 variant. Cleaned up
new blob names in btrtl, amdgpu, and adreno. Adjusted for in-tree
movement of i915, sp8870 and other av7110 cards, r8188eu, btqca
drivers, and for change to the blob-loading primitive used by
xhci-pci-renesas.
2021-06-27 - GNU Linux-libre 5.13-gnu
Cyclades and isicom tty, and i2400m wimax drivers, that we used to
clean up, were removed upstream. Comedi drivers were moved in the
tree, and cleaning up was adjusted to match. Cleaning up logic of the
btusb driver needed some updating, and amdgpu, i915 csr, r8152 usb,
mhi bus, x86 touchscreen and qualcomm arm64 drivers needed updating on
account on new blob names.
2021-06-11 - #gnu-linux-libre on Libera.Chat
GNU has moved to Libera.Chat
so we are taking the opportunity to transition to the #gnu namespace,
since we've been a GNU subproject since 2012, and we didn't feel we
belong under the #linux prefix. Find us on #gnu-linux-libre in the
Libera.Chat IRC network.
2021-04-25 - GNU Linux-libre 5.12-gnu (Freedo misses
Tasha
Cleaned up newly-added drivers for OcteonTX2 crypto, MXL692 dvb,
MT7921E wifi, and BCM VK accelerators; Intel ICE docs, and Qualcomm
AArch64 DTS variants. Adjusted cleaning up of Allegro-DVT. Updated
blob names in Adreno GPU, and in x86 touchscreen variants.
2021-02-14 - GNU Linux-libre 5.11-gnu (ilovefs)
Cleaned up drivers for qat_4xxx crypto, lt9611uxc dsi/hdmi bridge,
ccs/smia++ sensor, ath11k_pci, nxp audio transceiver, mhi pci
controller. Moved wimax cleaning up. Adjusted wakeup m3 rproc,
idt82p33 ptp clock, and qualcomm arm64 deblobbing. Handled new blob
versions in amdgpu, btqca, btrtl, btusb, i915 csr.
2020-12-13 - GNU Linux-libre 5.10-gnu
Support the new firmware-loading primitive introduced upstream;
identify and check for corresponding sources of precompiled BPF code
added to "sources"; cope with new blobs and tree rearrangement in
amdgpu; disable new blobs in Intel i915 video and bluetooth hci
drivers; disable blob loading in newly-added drivers for Cadence
MHDP8546 DPI/DP bridge and for Marvell Prestera switch; cope with
rearrangements in IMX SDMA, MLXSW Spectrum, Intel iwlwifi, Qualcomm
ath11k, Broadcom STM DPFE memory and Intel Haswell and HiFi2 sound;
disable new blobs in qcom aarch64 ports.
2020-10-11 - GNU Linux-libre 5.9-gnu
Cleaned up drivers for rtw8821c WiFi and for MediaTek mt8183 SoC.
Adjusted cleaning up of Habanalabs and Wilc1000 code, and Fore200e and
Netronome documentation, moved in the tree. Updated cleaning up of
amdgpu, mt7615, i915 CSR, Mellanox mlxsw (Spectrum3), r8169
(rtl8125b-2), and x86 touchscreen.
2020-08-02 - GNU Linux-libre 5.8-gnu
Cleaned up drivers for Atom ISP Video, MediaTek 7663 USB and 7915 PCIe
and Realtek 8723DE WiFi, Renesas PCI xHCI, HabanaLabs Gaudi
coprocessor, Enhanced Asynchronous Sample Rate Converter, Maxim
Integrated MAX98390 Speaker Aimplifier, Microsemi ZL38060 Connected
Home Audio Processor, and I2C EEPROM Slave. Adjusted cleaning up of
drivers for Adreno GPU, HabanaLabs Goya coprocessor, x86 touchscreen,
vt6656 and btbcm, and of various documentation files.
2020-05-31 - GNU Linux-libre 5.7-gnu
New GIT-based release process. Past releases also available at:

Dropped cleaning up for i1480 uwb, driver removed upstream. Disabled
blob loading in Marvell OcteonTX CPT, Mediatek MT7622 WMAC, Qualcomm
IPA, Azoteq IQS62x MFD, IDT 82P33xxx PTP clock, and MHI bus.
Adjustments to cope with changes in firmware loading interface, and
new blob names in AMD GPU, Arm64 DTS files, Meson VDec, Realtek
Bluetooth, m88ds3103 dvb frontend, Mediatek mt8173 VPU, Qualcomm
Venus, Broadcom FMAC, Mediatek 7622 and 7663 wifi, and silead x86
touchscreen. Adjusted for movement of mscc phy driver (and new blob
names in it) and wd719x documentation. Removed old-fashioned
executable binary blobs disguised as arrays of numbers, newly-added to
the i915, for use in gen7 gpus. Fixed deblob-check's selftest with
dash, and enabled input-specific overriding of standard blob-matching
patterns.
2020-05-20 - Build servers contributed by Joe Staton
Joe Staton donated 2 build servers to help keep the Freesh kernel
builds up to date. Thank you!
2020-03-29 - GNU Linux-libre 5.6-gnu (GNU Health for all)
Disabled blob loading in AMD TEE, ATH11K, and Mediatek SCP. Adjusted
cleaning up of AMD PSP, amdgpu, and nouveau.
2020-01-26 - GNU Linux-libre 5.5-gnu
Disabled blob loading in Realtek RTL815[23] USB ethernet adaptors, WFX
wf200 wireless, IDT Clockmatrix and RT5677 sound codecs. Adjusted
blob disabling in wilc1000, brcmstb_dpfe, r8169, iwlwifi, x86
touchscreen dmi, xhci-tegra, i915, and mlxsw spectrum.
2019-11-25 - GNU Linux-libre 5.4-gnu (Fi For GNU)
Disabled blob loading in Intel Ethernet Connection E800 Series ice
driver. Adjusted deblobbing of safexcel, amdgpu, i915, i2400m,
i1480u, nitrox, r8169, touchscreen_dmi, and skylake sound. Dropped
deblobbing of removed netx driver. Retain executability of deblobbed
scripts.
2019-09-15 - GNU Linux-libre 5.3-gnu (Freechard)
Disabled blob loading in qcom, hdcp drm, allegro-dvt, meson-vdec.
Adjusted deblobbing of documentation, amdgpu, i915, netx, r8169,
brcmfmac, rtl8188eu, adreno, si2157, pvrusb2, touchscreen_dmi,
skylake sound.
2019-07-07 - GNU Linux-libre 5.2-gnu
Enabled loading of Sound Open Firmware files. Disabled blob loading
in mt7615, rtw88, rtw8822b, rtw8822c, btmtksdio, iqs5xx, ishtp,
ucsi_ccg. Adjusted deblobbing of microcode docs, ixp4xx, imx-sdma,
amdgpu, nouveau, goya. Dropped deblobbing of r8822be, removed
upstream.
2019-05-05 - GNU Linux-libre 5.1-gnu
Disabled blob loading in mt7603 and goya. Adjusted deblobbing of
wilc1000, and updated blob names in iwlwifi, soc-acpi-intel sound,
brcmfmac, mwifiex, btmrvl, btmtk, touchscreen_dmi. Dropped cleaning
up of the lantiq xrx200 firmware loader, removed upstream.
2019-05-05 - Fixing Freed-ora f30 and f31 rpms
Freed-ora f30 and f31 rpms look for modules in the
wrong
directory
Thanks to Airwave on IRC for the report and the diagnostic. The fix
is in the 5.0.12-gnu f30 build, and will be in the next f31 build.
2019-03-03 - GNU Linux-libre 5.0-gnu
Deblobbed ipu3-imgu. Updated deblobbing of admgpu, adreno, tegra,
bnx2x, iwlwifi, mt76x0, qtnfmac, and Intel SOC sound (.ri and .tplg
added as extensions to flag). Dropped deblobbing of removed Eicon
DIVA ISDN driver.
2019-01-29 - libeRTy binaries
Jason Self has started maintaining the
libeRTy
apt repository which carries .debs compiled with the PREEMPT_RT patch for realtime operation on 32- and 64-bit x86 CPUs. Thanks!
2019-01-07 - Mirror in France
Thanks to cyberbits.eu for the new mirror!
2018-12-24 - GNU Linux-libre 4.20-gnu - Four.Two-Oh! Ho! Ho!
Disabled blob requests in MT76x0E, Lantiq/Intel GSWIP, and Microsemi
PHY. Updated btrtl, AMD GPU, i915 CSR, PSP crypto, MT76x0U, MT76x2E,
MT76x2U, qtnfmac, Qualcomm ADSP and Hexagon V5 Remoteproc, x86
touchscreen, hda ca0132, ath10k, and iwlwifi cleaning up. Dropped
false positive matches for old patches.
2018-10-22 - GNU Linux-libre 4.19-gnu
Silenced some harmless compiler warnings in reject_firmware.
Adjusted README adjustments. Disabled blob requests in MT76x0U and
MT76x2U WiFi, MTk Bluetooth UART, Keystone and Qualcomm Hexagon
Remoteproc, and Aspeed ColdFire FSI Master. Updated AMD GPU, Adreno,
brcmfmac, mlxsw, Intel Skylake sound and Silead touchscreen cleaning
up.
2018-08-15 - New mirrors
Mirrors in Ecuador, Romania, Sweden (also available in the Tor
network), and USA East coast are now available. Thanks UTA and ESPOCH
in Ecuador, Ernesto Pérez Estévez, Alin-Adrian Anton, Jonathan Sélea,
and John Harris for the updates. URLs using http were changed to
https where available.
2018-08-12 - GNU Linux-libre 4.18-gnu
Introduced firmware_reject_nowarn; check for new
firmware_request_nowarn and other firmware_request interfaces.
Deblobbed psp-dev crypto, icn8505 touchscreen. Adjusted deblobbing of
qat c3xxx and c62x crypto, dvb-usb, dvb-usb-v2, iwlwifi, ks7010,
ath10k, andgpu, i915, tg3, silead, ca0132 hd audio. Dropped atom isp
deblobbing. Checked for asm sources split out of amdkfd cwsr trap
handler header file.
2018-06-03 - GNU Linux-libre 4.17-gnu: -ENOTEMPTY
Dropped deblobbing of Dreamcast Yamaha AICA, its firmware is Free
Software, and of USB IrDA, removed upstream. Adjusted for firmware
loader and builddeb reorganization. Updated deblobbing of i915,
amdgpu, coda, s5p-mfc, wl1251, and brcmfmac.
The codename -ENOTEMPTY celebrates that, after 10 days of truckers'
strike that, despite broad support from the population including
myself, led to shortages of fuel and many other products all over
Brazil, I could finally refuel my car on Friday.
2018-04-01 - GNU Linux-libre 4.16-gnu: -ESTRBNYX
Revamp reject_firmware_nowait so as give the callback a chance to
run; return the expected -ENOENT from other reject_firmware variants.
Obfuscate messages that might suggest the installation of non-Free
microcode. Deblobbed mt76x2e. Update deblobbing of i915, nouveau,
imx-sdma, iwlwifi, raydium-i2c, and silead_dmi. Dropped lirc_zilog.
Clean up keyspan firmware Kconfig leftovers.
2018-01-28 - GNU Linux-libre 4.15-gnu
Adjusted deb and rpm build scripts to refer to GNU Linux-libre.
Disabled non-Free firmware loading in hideep touchscreen and brcmstb
memory drivers. Updated the cleaning up of i915, adreno, amdgpu,
tegra, silead dmi, and atomisp. Dropped cleaning up of ap1302 and oss
drivers, removed upstream.
2017-11-12 - GNU Linux-libre 4.14-gnu: -ENOFIRMWARE
Dropped deblobbing of the firmware subtree. Adjusted for the new
request_firmware_into_buf interface. Deblobbed rtl8822be. Updated
deblobbing of microcode, xrx200, amdgpu, irda-usb, skylake sound,
netronome nfp, brcmfmac, iwlwifi, and rt5514.
2017-11-11 - linux-libre-firmware
Jason Self, of Freesh fame, put together a distribution of Free
firmware for use with GNU Linux-libre:
git
repo
and
released tarballs
2017-09-03 - GNU Linux-libre 4.13-gnu
Deblobbed drivers for Cavium Nitrox CNN55XX, Inside Secure's SafeXcel
cryptographic engine, Qualcomm Venus V4L2 encoder/decoder, Mellanox
Technologies Spectrum, Quantenna QSR10g, and Qualcomm ADSP and WCNSS.
Updated deblobbing for AMDGPU, Adreno A5xx, and Intel i915 CSR GPU,
Atheros 802.11ac ath10k, Broadcom IEEE802.11n embedded FullMAC WLAN,
Intel DVM and MVM, Redpine Signals WLAN, and Wilocity 60g WiFi, and
Silead Tablet touchscreen drivers.
2017-07-07 - Another build server contributed by Jan Prunk
Jan Prunk noticed some of our builds were lagging behind, and kindly
offered another build server, the second offered by him. Thank you,
Jan!
2017-07-02 - GNU Linux-libre 4.12-gnu
Deblobbed Tegra gpu, AtomISP v4l, RTL8723BS WiFi, and HCILL and Nokia
H4+ BT. Updated deblobbing of amdgpu, i915 csr and nouveau GPUs, and
Skylake sound. Updated blob names for si2168 dvb, si2157 tuner,
ath10k wifi, iwlwifi, rtl8723be wifi, rtl8821ae wifi, and silead
touchscreen. Dropped deblobbing of WiLink NFC, removed upstream.
2017-05-01 - GNU Linux-libre 4.11-gnu
Deblobbed Cavium Crypto accelerator, Rockchip gpu, Netronome NFP
4000/6000 ethernet and Silead touchscreen drivers. Added .out and
.nffw to the list of extensions regarded as suspected blobs. Updated
deblobbing of AMD and Intel gpu drivers, of the Qualcomm peripheral
blob loader, of Chips&Media Coda media codecs, Atheros ath10k and
wil6210 WiFi, Intel iwlwifi, and Intel Skylake audio drivers.
2017-02-19 - GNU Linux-libre 4.10-gnu
Updated README. Deblob st_fdma. Update deblobbing of amdgpu,
adreno, i915, radeon, iwlwifi, slicoss, bfad, and of alsa docs. Drop
deblobbing of STE-Modem, removed upstream. Catch a general pattern of
iwlwifi blob name prefixes.
2016-12-11 - GNU Linux-libre 4.9-gnu
Enable blobless activation of RV7xx radeon cards. Deblobbed sun8i,
Marvell Bluetooth support, ziirave_wdt, greybus. Updated deblobbing
of amdgpu, mwifiex, wlcore, imx7s. Dropped deblobbing of r8723au,
removed upstream. Corrected deblobbing of b43 and b43legacy to fix a
blob name's leakage into error messages.
2016-10-28 - Build server contributed by Jan Prunk
Besides maintaining one of our mirrors, Jan Prunk has now generously
offered us access to a build server. That will help ease the load on
the one offered by the FSF, and get builds out faster. Thank you,
Jan!
2016-10-02 - GNU Linux-libre 4.8-gnu
Enable blobless activation of evergreen radeon cards. Deblobbed
mtk_vpu, ks7010_sdio, raydium_i2c_ts, silead, qcom_q6v5_pil,
qcom_mdt_loader, and rt5514. Adjusted deblobbing of media docs,
mn88472, iwlwifi, skl, brcmfmac, radeon, i915_csr, and btusb.
2016-07-24 - GNU Linux-libre 4.7-gnu
Deblobbed xhci-tegra. Adjusted deblobbing of radeon, i915 csr,
mwifiex, brcmfmac, iwlwifi, ath10k testmode, rtl8xxxu wifi, hfi1
Infiniband, and skylake audio.
2016-05-15 - GNU Linux-libre 4.6-gnu
Enable blobless activation of r600 radeon cards. Updated deblobbing
of nouveau and skylake audio. Deblobbed melfas_mip4 touchscreen and
ag6xx bluetooth drivers. Removed deblobbing of dgap and wimax gdm72xx
usb drivers, removed upstream.
2016-03-14 - GNU Linux-libre 4.5-gnu
Deblobbed qat_c3xxx, qat_c62x, adf7242, goodix touchscreen, Qualcomm
WCNSS SOC. Updated deblobbing of radeon, nouveau, skylake sound, XHCI
rcar. Adjusted for lots of code movement, especially within
drivers/net/wireless.
2016-01-10 - GNU Linux-libre 4.4-gnu
Deblobbed qed, fdp, nfcmrvl, rtl8xxxu, and rohm_bu21023. Adjusted
deblobbing for revamp of early microcode loader. Dropped ft1000.
2015-11-02 - GNU Linux-libre 4.3-gnu
Deblobbed c8sectpfe, s3fwrn5, Intel and Qualcomm/Atheros Bluetooth,
HFI1 Infiniband, Intel Skylake sound. Updated deblobbing of amdgpu,
nouveau, mwifiex.
2015-08-30 - GNU Linux-libre 4.2-gnu: "10% of the answer"
Deblobbed amdgpu, i915, cx24120, liquidio, mt7601u, wilc1000,
hci_bcm, btrtl, and wdt87xx_i2c. Updated deblobbing of elan_i2c,
rproc, cxgb4, ath10k, and brcm80211.
2015-06-22 - GNU Linux-libre 4.1-gnu
Deblobbed nxp-nci and btbcm. Updated deblobbing of Intel SST, btusb,
elants_i2c, iwlwifi, and various other frequently-updated blobnames.
2015-05-05 - lemote/gnewsense is now freeloong
The distribution of GNU Linux-libre .debs for Lemote Yeeloong
notebooks running gNewSense/mipsel, that didn't have a name and was
identified by the lemote/gnewsense directory, is now called freeloong.
To use them, add this line to your sources.list:
deb http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/freeloong metad main
2015-04-27 - DeCentOS RPMs
Robert Musial has managed to build a deblobbed kernel based on CentOS
7's blob-ridden one. It's available from
the DeCentOS site
2015-04-12 - GNU Linux-libre 4.0-gnu
Fixed --force handling in deblob-4.0. Cosmetically deblobbed cyapa
(the default blob name is unused: loading is always user-initiated,
from user-supplied file, so it's fine) and ssp_sensors (blob names
were cleaned up, but no loading machinery was encountered). Updated
deblobbing and checking of nouveau. Dropped tlg2300.
2015-02-09 - GNU Linux-libre 3.19-gnu
Deblobbed sti (gpu), mn88472 and mn88473 (dvb), ELAN (touchpad),
me4000, wd719x, rt5677, and Intel SST IPC drivers. Updated deblobbing
of tlg2300, brcmfmac_sdio, ath10k. Dropped deblobbing of bcm_wimax,
removed upstream. Added new blob name patterns for adreno gpu,
m88ds3103, mwifiex usb, and matches for various new false positives.
Non-functional changes: standardized formatting of clean_kconfig and
clean_mk commands in deblob-3.19; check that the Kconfig file given
to clean_kconfig contains the named config tag, and fixed the various
typos it caught. Improved EXTRAVERSION -gnuification to ensure there
is a blank after "=".
2015-01-28 - Deblob scripts now have signatures, branches and tags
The deblob scripts are now signed, in past and future source releases.
Scripts published as part of past source releases were verified
against the history stored in the version control repository.
In order to make this easier, and to make it easier for users to
select stable sets of deblob scripts that work together, we now have
per-major-release branches holding the latest version (and past
history) of deblobbing scripts for that release. The first release
coming out after each change to such a branch also gets a tag, so that
every one of our source releases can be easily mapped and compared to
a tag.
See also the README file and the branches and tags subdirs within the
releases
tree in our version control repository.
2014-12-07 - GNU Linux-libre 3.18-gnu and Freed-ora 8-1
Remove deblobbing of usbdux comedi drivers, since the requested
firmware is Free Software (thanks to Legimet for the report). Reduced
timeout for disarmed blob loading requests (thanks to Cristophe Jarry
for the suggestion). Improved the generic error message for blob load
requests (thanks to Brian Candler for the suggestion). Fixed buffer
overflow in deblobbed irda-usb (thanks to Lluvia for the bug report).
Reduce divergence from upstream by avoiding unnecessary renaming of
internal functions and field names. Updated deblobbing of msm (adreno
GPU), radeon, m920x, bcm3510, or51211, sp8870, sp887x, tda1004x,
as102, budget dvb, coda video, ft1000-pcmcia, netxen, qlcnic, r8169,
bnx2x, iwlwifi-8000, rtl8723ae, rtl8188eu, rtl8192ee, rtl8821ae, lpfc,
and qla2xxx. Deblobbed saa7134-go7007, ath10k testmode, wil6210, and
knav_qmss. Dropped deblobbing of removed driver nokia_h4p. Remove
external compression of uncompressible xdelta3 diffs.
Freed-ora
8-1 RPM packages were released with an updated
mirror list in the yum repository configuration files in the
freed-ora-release package, and many additions to the freed-ora-freedom
to help you keep your system Free from numerous non-Free kernel
sub-packages and non-Free firmware and microcode packages, included in
the upstream GNU/Linux distribution, but that were not yet recognized
by the previous Freed-ora build. The packages are available in the
testing repositories for F19, F20, F21 and F22.
2014-12-07 - New mirrors in Ecuador
Ernesto Pérez Estévez tells us about two full mirrors in Ecuador,
kindly hosted by
ESPOCH
and
CEDIA
. The mirrors serve http, ftp and
rsync at URLs such as
and
. Thanks!
2014-12-07 - Mirror list updated
Jan Prunk has renamed his gnulinux.tv mirror to
gnulinux.si
The mirror at the University of Campinas has long been down.
2014-10-05 - GNU Linux-libre 3.17-gnu
Disabled blob loading in the drivers for Intel QuickAssist Technology,
Silicon Labs Si2157 and si2165, Broadcom IEEE802.11n PCIE FullMAC
WLAN, xHCI support for Renesas R-Car SoCs. Adjusted cleaning up of
go7007 driver, moved out of staging. Dropped deblobbing of
wlags49_h2, wlags49_h25, keucr; the drivers were removed. Updated
blob names in radeon, si2168, code v4l, s5p_mfc, xc4000, ti-st,
ath6kl, brcmfmac, p54, and iwlwifi drivers.
2014-08-07 - GNU Linux-libre 3.16-gnu
Lots of new blobs and blob requests had to be removed for this
release: ast_dp501, radeon, drx39xyj, m88ds3103, si2168, s5k5baf,
iwlwifi, rsi_91x, rtl8192ee, rtl8723au, rtl8723be, rtl8821ae,
bt_nokia_h4p, mxuport, adau1761, and adau1781; dgap and sst-acpi are
back after rewrites that required new deblobbing patterns too.
2014-06-08 - GNU Linux-libre 3.15-gnu
Upstream dropped it913x and dgap drivers and added a few new blob
names and corresponding requests, all deblobbed in 3.15-gnu. Nouveau
and radeon also grew new longish sequences that turned out not to be
blobs, so those are explicitly retained.
2014-03-31 - GNU Linux-libre 3.14-gnu: “Freedom Pi”
Dropped checks for aic7xxx_old and cs46xx firmware and sources.
Added reject_firmware_direct. Adjusted deblobbing of moved
microcode loaders. Updated deblobbing of bnx2x, bt_mrvl, cs46xx.
Dropped deblobbing of btmtk (removed upstream).
2014-01-20 - GNU Linux-libre 3.13-gnu
Deblobbed cx24117, vpdma, wcn36xx, and btmrvl. Updated deblobbing of
rtl8188eu, em28xx, ath10k, brcmfmac, iwlwifi, readon, and wl1251.
2013-11-03 - GNU Linux-libre 3.12-gnu
Deblobbed msm, pn544_i2c, r8188eu, and dgap drivers. Updated
deblobbing of s5p_mfc, bna, and bfa, and added expressions to match
several new or modified false positives.
Linked to gdnewhat and slack-n-free as sources of packages.
2013-09-02 - GNU Linux-libre 3.11-gnu: “Linux for freedom-loving Workgroups”
Updated deblobbing of nouveau, radeon, comedi, x86 early microcode
loaders. Deblobbed ath10k, cw1200, iwlmvm, mtmtk. Dropped csr_wifi.
2013-07-01 - GNU Linux-libre 3.10-gnu
Updated deblobbing of iwlwifi, csiostor, go7007, siano sms1xxx, and
radeon. Disabled non-Free firmware loading of newly-added drivers for
btusb, ims-pcu, exynos4 fimc-is, and rtl8188ee. Fixed a deblobbing
bug in radeon that affected cayman variants since 2.6.39.
2013-04-28 - GNU Linux-libre 3.9-gnu
Restored the (now Free) firmware loading in ath9k (thanks, Jason Self,
for the patches and for the
firmware
build
!). Deblobbed Intel early
microcode loader, s5c73m3, rp2, lp5521, lp5523, lattice ecp3, ca0132
dsp. Updated imx sdma, m920x, bnx2x, qlcnic, iwlwifi, mwifiex,
wl18xx, wm_adsp deblobbing.
2013-02-19 - GNU Linux-libre 3.8-gnu
Disabled non-Free firmware requests in newly-added drivers xrx200,
ar5523, rtl8723ae, csiostor, and wm_adsp, and the new non-Free
firmware requests in ath9k and nouveau (falcon). Updated deblobbing
of lpfc and gdm72xx. Drop dabusb firmware removal, now removed
upstream.
2012-12-11 - GNU Linux-libre 3.7-gnu
Tolerate non-executable deblob-check script, and detect other likely
error scenarios that would produce empty files. Fix detection of
presence of source files along with pre-built binary counterparts
within the source tree. Introduce conditional ihex firmware loading.
Adjust for tree reorg within drivers/media. Adjust deblobbing for arm
ixp4xx-npe and imx dts, nouveau, rtl8192e, wlcore, gdm72xx, s5k4ecgx,
s5p_mfc, xc5000, bfad, ueagle-atm, and tda10071. Deblob daqboard2000,
me_daq, ni_pcidio, ezusb_fx2, ste_modem_rproc and wm0010. Drop some
of computone, cxgb3, keyspan_pda and whiteheat deblobbing and
cleanups.
2012-09-30 - GNU Linux-libre 3.6-gnu
Make deblobbing scripts immune to locale settings. Deblob csr-wifi
and wl18xx. Adjust bcm, iwlwifi, wlcore, wl12xx, WiMAX i2400m, Comedi
JR3, em28xx-dvb, and r8169. Drop iwmc3200.
2012-07-21 - GNU Linux-libre 3.5-gnu: “Free and a half!”
Deblob af9035 and wlcore. Adjusted deblobbing for nouveau, libertas,
wl1251, wl12xx, gdm72xx, r8169, ath6kl, and mwifiex. Dropped 3c359,
smctr and tms380tr.
2012-05-21 - GNU Linux-libre 3.4-gnu
Deblobbing news: new az6007 and nfc wilink drivers needed cleaning up;
radeon got new blob dependencies; xc5000, lmedm04, em28xx, bna, bnx2x,
brcmfmac, iwlwifi, wl12xx, ath6kl and qla2xxx required deblobbing
adjustments.
2012-05-18 - New mirror at
gnulinux.tv
Jan Prunk set up a
new mirror
. The
server is located in California, USA. Thanks!
2012-04-20 - real-time support in the rt apt repository
Juan Jacobo Nájera has built Linux-libre with real-time support for
quite a while, but he's now started uploading his 32- and 64-bit x86
binaries to an
apt
repository
on our servers. To get easy access to the packages, add
the following line to your sources.list:
deb http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/rt squeeze main
2012-03-19 - 3.3-gnu: “3.3 as in freedom.freedom”
Linux-libre joins the GNU Project, becoming GNU Linux-libre. This
release, 3.3-gnu, marks the transition, although upcoming stable
releases based on earlier -libre releases may become -gnu releases as
well. Deblobbing scripts now support .gz, .lz and .xz compressed
inputs, in addition to .bz2 and uncompressed ones, and tarballs are
now named linux-libre--gnu
.tar
. Few deblobbing changes were
required for this release: deblobbing of drivers for arm imx, dib0700,
it913x, em28xx-dvb, brcmfmac, iwl3945, iwl4965, and rtl8192e needed
some adjusting, while wl12xx-sdio-test and snd-intel-sst are no longer
present, and sigmadsp code moved about in the tree.
2012-01-05 - gen5 - 3.2-libre
Cleaned up newly-added drivers it913x, ath6kl, mwifi_pcie,
usbduxsigma, as102 and r8192e_pci. Adjusted deblobbing for ethernet
drivers, moved within the tree, and s5p-mfc. Fixed deblobbing typos
in bt8xx, iwlwifi, libertas usb8xxx, vxge, and pcxhr.
2011-10-31 - Wheezy mipsel binaries
James Turner
maintains binary .debs of recent Linux-libre releases for Lemote
Yeeloong (mipsel) netbooks.
2011-10-24 - gen5 - 3.1-libre
Newly-added xc4000, drxk_hard, em28xx-dvb, s5p-mfc, rtl8192de,
adau1701, and sigma cleaned up. Fixed minor deblobbing bug in
iwlwifi. Accept nouveau's new built-in FUC with accompanying source
code (some nv cards remain limited by the lack of Free microcode).
Dropped deblobbing for removed westbridge, ip2main, and myri_sbus
drivers. Adjusted deblobbing for mach-imx, ft1000, brcmsmac,
brcmfmac, mwifiex, dib7000p, and others.
2011-09-12 - Freesh binaries
Jason Self's
Freesh
apt repository
carries binary .debs for 32- and 64-bit x86 systems, and support for
more architectures is planned. Thanks!
2011-07-22 - gen5 - 3.0-libre
Newly-added mwifiex, rtl8192se, vub300, lpfc and wm8994 cleaned up.
Updated deblobbing of ath6k, drxd, bnx2x, brcmfmac, rtl8192ce and
rtl8192cu. Dropped deblobbing for upstream-removed rt2860 and rt2870.
2011-06-11 - New mirror in Turkey
Gökdeniz Karadağ tells us linux.org.tr is a new Linux-libre mirror.
Thanks!
2011-05-19 - gen5 - 2.6.39-libre
Newly-added technisat-usb2, fm_drv (WL128X), rtl8192cu, ums-eneub6250,
and snd-usb-6fire cleaned up. Adjusted deblobbing of computone,
cyclades, isi moxa_intellio, dib0700, cx23885, bnx2, brcmsmac,
iwlegacy, iwlagn, rtl8192ce, rtl8192u, r8712u, and atmel-mxt. Dropped
deblobbing of dabusb (driver removed from upstream, with blobs left
over) and dx-sep.
2011-03-15 - gen5 - 2.6.38-libre
Nouveau requested blobs again, large ones this time; radeon required
more blobs for new cards; newly-added wl1273, rtl8192ce, can_softing,
and re-introduced dx_sep depended on blobs; bnx2 and bnx2x had updated
blobs as usual; r8169's blobs were moved out of the sources; dabusb,
vicam, wl1xx, serial_cs, icom, and serial_qe were moved about in the
tree; bcm_wimax and snd_intel_sst required deblobbing updates; 3c359
had its harmlessly-buggy cleaning-up fixed.
2011-01-09 - gen5 - Updated 2.6.27.36
The README blurb, the loading of PCMCIA CIS files and the fix for the
message that recommended the installation of non-Free Software were
all backported to the following releases: 2.6.36.3-libre1,
2.6.35.10-libre3, 2.6.34.8-libre2, 2.6.33.7-libre1, 2.6.32.28-libre2,
2.6.31.14-libre4, 2.6.30.10-libre3, 2.6.29.6-libre3, 2.6.28.10-libre5,
2.6.27.57-libre5, as well as their baselines 2.6.36-libre1,
2.6.35-libre3, 2.6.34-libre2, 2.6.33-libre1, 2.6.32-libre2,
2.6.31-libre4, 2.6.30-libre3, 2.6.29-libre3, 2.6.28-libre5,
2.6.27-libre5. The deblobbing scripts in 2.6.37-libre were updated
with cosmetic changes that did not change the output. Patch files
between base releases and from base to patch release are now
GPG-signed, compressed with both bzip2 and lzip. The tarballs for
older releases, containing the Free Bait freedom bug, were removed,
and the xdeltas and scripts moved to old/gen4.
2011-01-05 - gen5 - 2.6.37-libre
New README blurb about Linux-libre, re-enabled loading of PCMCIA CIS
files found to be available under Free with sources elsewhere,
adjusted Libertas drivers to accept user-specified firmware, fixed
error message that recommended the installation of non-Free Software,
removed the newly-introduced blobs from 5 new drivers, disabled
requests for blobs from 10 new drivers, updated the cleaning up of 5
drivers, removed the deblobbing of 1 blob-dependent and 1
blob-in-sources driver dropped from staging.
2010-11-07 - Linux-libre/planet .debs
Aurélien Desbrières's Linux-libre binaries are now available at an apt
repository on our servers and mirrors. To get easy access to them,
add the following line to your sources.list:
deb http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/planet planet main
2010-10-21 - 2.6.36-libre
Deblobbed 2 new blob-dependent drivers, adjusted the deblobbing of 3
others, dropped deblobbing of nouveau, now blob-free, and of a dropped
driver.
Read the
announcement
2010-08-22 - 2.6.35-libre2
Fixed a deblobbing error in drivers/net/e100.c.
2010-08-03 - 2.6.35-libre1
Fixed a deblobbing error in drivers/media/video/s2255drv.c.
2010-08-02 - 2.6.35-libre, 2.6.34-libre1
Cleaned up 4 new blob-dependent drivers in 2.6.35, fixed a deblobbing
error that caused compile errors in r8192S_firmware.c in 2.6.34-libre.
2010-05-18 - 2.6.34-libre
Cleaned up 9 new blob-dependent drivers in 2.6.34, updated cleaning up
of a couple others.
2010-02-24 - 2.6.33-libre, generation 4
New, much faster deblob-check, based on Python, GNU awk, PERL or GNU
sed, at your choice. Updated for 2.6.33. Blobs are growing faster
than Linux.
Read the
announcement
2009-12-13 - Linux-libre for Lemote Yeeloong with Freedo
Linux-libre binaries
(.deb)
for gNewSense metad/mipsel (for Lemote Yeeloong) are available.
Compared with the gNewSense binaries, they add a number of modules,
and display Freedo as the boot-time logo. Add this line to sources.list:
deb http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/lemote/gnewsense metad main
2009-12-10 - gen3 - 2.6.27-libre3
Released 2.6.27 baseline and 2.6.27.41 deblobbed with updated
deblob-check and deblob-2.6.27 scripts.
2009-12-08 - gen3 - 2.6.32-libre, 2.6.31-libre2, 2.6.30-libre1
Updated for 2.6.32, fixed deblobbing bugs (some cosmetic issues, some
compile errors in a few drivers in staging, such as ME4000, RT2670,
RT2680, and RT3070) in 2.6.31 and 2.6.30. Backported the newer
deblobbing of Radeon, R128, and BNX2X to 2.6.30. Untested backports
to earlier kernel releases are in the SVN repository.
2009-09-21 - gen3 - 2.6.31-libre1
Fixes deblobbing errors in usbdux staging drivers, reworks the
deblobbing of Radeon, R128 and MGA drivers, in preparation for removal
of the firmware from upstream, and improves operation with --force for
better operation with already-deblobbed kernels and other variants.
2009-09-12 - gen3 - 2.6.31-libre
It's out! 'nuff said.
2009-06-12 - gen3 - 2.6.30-libre
Broadcom b43 WiFi should now work with the Free reverse-engineered
firmware. Other than that,
this
release
just updates to the deblobbing machinery to deal with all
the upstream shuffling and addition of non-Free firmware and of
dependencies on non-Free firmware.
2009-06-09 - gen3 - 2.6.29-libre1, 2.6.28-libre3 and 2.6.27-libre2
This release fixes regressions in e100 and radeon introduced in the
gen2 releases, and fixes a few deblobbing errors. Read the
announcement
“Free as in Freedo” T-shirts are on the way
We're going to print T-shirts with Freedo. Check out the design and
colors
here
Get them first at
FISL 10
2009-04-02 - gen2 - 2.6.27-libre1 released
This release makes the 2.6.27 series suitable for use in Free System
Distributions, after backporting and adjusting the clean-ups already
available in 2.6.28-libre2 and 2.6.29-libre. 2.6.27.21-libre1 is also
available.
2009-03-31 - gen2 - 2.6.28-libre2 and 2.6.29-libre released
The 2.6.28-libre2 release fixes a number of problems in 2.6.28-libre1:
some compile errors caused by deblobbing, a few missed non-Free
firmware names and references to non-Free firmware, and some shell
scripting portability issues. 2.6.28.9-libre2 is also available.
The 2.6.29-libre release uses the same deblobbing infrastructure as
2.6.28-libre2, but it's updated for 2.6.29, and adapted to deal with
the pieces of non-Free firmware and drivers that require external
non-Free firmware added to the upstream release.
2009-03-21 - gen2 - 2.6.28-libre1 released at
Libre Planet 2009
This is the first release completely suitable for Free System
Distributions: not only does it remove non-Free Software (and brings
back some data tables that used to be removed in earlier release), it
also removes requests for and documentation that induced users to
install and use non-Free Software.
Get the
slides
and the
audio
of the launch speech at the
Libre Planet 2009 web
site
How it is done
The removal of non-Free bits from the kernel Linux is accomplished
with the script deblob-main, that in turn uses deblob- and
deblob-check.
deblob- is inspired in gNewSense's scripts, later customized for
BLAG by Jeff Moe, and then further improved as part of the linux-libre
project.
deblob-check is a script that you can use to test whether a kernel
source file, a patch or a tarball, contains any remaining or
suspicious firmware blob.
How to participate
Mailing list
Social Media
Freedo
GIT repository
: git://linux-libre.fsfla.org/releases.git (see README)
SVN repository
(if SVN demands authentication, anonymous is a username that allows anonymous access with a blank password)
Mirrors
FSFLA
rsync://rsync.linux-libre.fsfla.org/linux-libre/
(Australia)
rsync://mirrors.middlendian.com/linux-libre/
mirror.cyberbits.eu
(France)
rsync://rsync.cyberbits.eu/linux-libre/
linux.org.tr
ftp://ftp.linux.org.tr/linux-libre/
rsync://ftp.linux.org.tr/linux-libre/
flossmirror.org
(Germany)
repo.jing.rocks
(Japan)
rsync://repo.jing.rocks/linux-libre/
uta.edu.ec
(Ecuador)
ftp://mirror.uta.edu.ec/linux-libre/
rsync://mirror.uta.edu.ec/linux-libre/
cedia.org.ec
(Ecuador)
ftp://mirror.cedia.org.ec/linux-libre/
rsync://mirror.cedia.org.ec/linux-libre/
linuxliber.ro (Romania)
ftp://ftp.linuxliber.ro/
(freesh and freed-ora stable only)
splentity.com
(Arizona, USA)
Robert Millan's Freed-ebian upstream repository (no longer maintained)
(freed-ebian only)
SVN repository structure
scripts/deblob-main
: The main script to clean up a linux tarball.
scripts/deblob-check
: A script that recognizes and optionally cleans up blobs.
scripts/deblob-
$ver
: Scripts that clean up blobs from within exploded Linux source trees.
scripts/README
: More details on usage of these scripts.
releases
: Branches and tags of released scripts.
freed-ora
: See
freed-ora
freed-ebian
: Scripts and diffs used to maintain freed-ebian packages.
lemote
: Scripts and diffs used to maintain freeloong GNU Linux-libre binary packages for Lemote Yeeloong notebooks running gNewSense.
Other sources of binaries
Jason Self
maintains both the
Freesh apt
repository
with .debs of recent Linux-libre releases for 32- and 64-bit x86 and
powerpc as well as the
libeRTy
apt repository which
carries .debs compiled with the PREEMPT_RT patch for realtime
operation on 32- and 64-bit x86 CPUs.
Read more.
Robert Musial has built
DeCentOS RPMs
The
GNU Guix System Distribution
uses GNU Linux-libre as its kernel. Obviously
BLAG
ships our
Freed-ora
kernels.
GdNewHat
used to do that, too, before it merged with BLAG.
gNewSense
ships Linux-libre kernels.
They used to be cleaned up with an older approach, but current
releases use current deblobbing technology. For Lemote Yeeloong
mipsel notebooks, see our
repository
Damián
Fossi
maintains Linux-libre binaries for gNewSense/MIPS (for
Lemote Yeeloong
laptops), and for Canaima GNU/Linux.
Henry Jensen maintains the
slack-n-free
repository, with ConnochaetOS' GNU Linux-libre packages, so that they can be used on distros that cut non-Free Software too much slack.
FreeSlack
also includes GNU Linux-libre packages in its installable images.
VENENUX GNU/Linux
switched to Linux-libre
as of its 0.8-rc3 release.
Trisquel
ships 100% Free Linux kernels,
based on Linux-libre from version 2.1 onwards.
Drágora GNU/Linux
has shipped Linux-libre in
all of its releases.
Kongoni
has adopted Linux-libre as of the
Nietszche release.
VegnuX NeonatoX GNU/Linux
has shipped
Linux-libre since the 0.48 release.
Amagi
is a gNewSense-based distro for
Lemote Yeeloong laptops.
Parábola GNU/Linux
has Linux-libre
binaries in its
package
repositories
. If you use the distro on which Parábola is based,
these packages could turn it into Freeda d'Arc.
ConnochaetOS
is a light distro,
also with Freeda d'Arc potential.
RMS GNU/Linux-libre (RMS's Mostly Slax)
shipped Linux-libre in a Live pen-drive light distro.
Tlamaki GNU con Linux
was based on Trisquel,
but it rebased, becoming a FreedSUSE.
Musix
GNU+Linux
's adoption of Linux-libre is underway.
Dyne:bolic
is going to have Linux-libre in its next release.
Heads
, also from the fine
Dyne
folks, is a
Tor
-enabled liveCD that uses a security-hardened kernel cleaned up with our deblobbing scripts.
Genfree
ebuild
scripts are available too, thanks to Nick White.
There are
binary
packages
for Arch [GNU/]Linux.
The
“Linux Libre
Packages” team
maintains binary packages of GNU Linux-libre for free
human beings.
Aurélien Desbrières
used to build
Linux-libre/planet .debs for x86 out of Linux-libre
tarballs
for general use.
Read more.
Ali Gündüz
used to do that, too.
Juan Jacobo Nájera used to maintain the
rt apt
repository
with
.debs with real-time support.
Read more.
James Turner
used
to build binary .debs of recent Linux-libre releases for Lemote
Yeeloong (mipsel) netbooks.
Robert
Millan
used to build Freed-ebian packages.
If you roll out your own generally-available Linux-libre-based
binaries,
let us know
Artwork
The
hanging penguin picture
was taken by
Lewis
Laë
in November, 2007, and he was kind enough to grant us permission
to use it as a logo, in private e-mail. Merci beaucoup, lew!
Anyhow, the picture didn't make for a very good logo. The penguin is
cute and clean indeed, but he's still a prisoner. That's why we call
him
Stux
Burnaron
drew
Freetz (thanks!), the penguin
above
, shown getting out of
the shower holding a brush and a towel.
He
posted
a vectorial version too (the image is a link to it).
Rubén Rodrígues
Pérez
gave, erhm, birth to Freetz's younger brother, Freedo, our official
logo. The name was suggested by Jeff Moe.
Fernando
suggested a grey version for printing in fewer colors. The
final
touches to
Freedo
were given by Islene Calciolari Garcia and Alexandre Oliva.
Alexandre Oliva combined Freedo with GNU, creating the image at the
top of the page. Binaries published by the Linux-libre project are
going to be configured to display this logo at boot up. If you want
to use it too, look for patches named 100gnu+freedo.patch, in
directories named after Linux-libre builds within
SVN
repository
A few kernels used an older variant:
Guillaume
Pasquet drew
Lux, the holy free penguin (thanks!), based on Larry
Ewing's original tux; both must be credited for this art work.
Alexandre Oliva put
together
the
levitating gnu
, and
Lux, being levitated out of the cage. This picture and its vectorial
corresponding sources are licensed under the same terms as the
levitating gnu: GPLv3+ or GFDL1.1 without invariant sections, front or
back cover texts.
Jason Self has drawn a collection of beautiful artwork with GNU and
Freedo.
Check it out
Be Free!
Links:
freed-ora.en
freesh.en
index.en
liberty.en
rpmfreedom.en
sidebar.en
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