From Fedora Project Wiki

m (→‎What can you do?: fix ordered list)
No edit summary
(23 intermediate revisions by 7 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
== Hardware Overview ==
{{header|docs}}


Users often request that Fedora provide a ''hardware compatibility list'', which we have carefully avoided doing.  Why?  It is a difficult and thankless task that is best handled by the community at large than by one little Linux distribution.
{{Docs_beat_closed}}


However, because of our stance against closed-source hardware drivers and the problems of binary firmware for hardware, there is some additional information the Fedora Project wants to provide Fedora users.
[[Category:Docs Project]]
 
[[Category:Draft documentation]]
 
[[Category:Documentation beats]]
 
=== Useful hardware information in these release notes ===
 
* For 32-bit x86 - [[Docs/Beats/ArchSpecific/x86| Docs/Beats/ArchSpecific/x86]]  
* For 64-bit x86 - [[Docs/Beats/ArchSpecific/x86_64| Docs/Beats/ArchSpecific/x86_64]]  
* For PowerPC - [[Docs/Beats/ArchSpecific/PPC| Docs/Beats/ArchSpecific/PPC]]  
 
=== Hardware stance ===
 
From [[ForbiddenItems]]:
 
* If it is proprietary, it cannot be included in Fedora.
* If it is legally encumbered, it cannot be included in Fedora.
* If it violates United States federal law, it cannot be included in Fedora.
 
=== What can you do? ===
 
# Get active.  Tell your hardware vendors you only want free, open source drivers and firmware
# Use your buying power and only purchase from hardware vendors that support their hardware with open drivers and firmware.  Refer to http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw for more information.

Revision as of 02:13, 8 October 2014

DocsProject Header docTeam1.png


Warning.png
Beat Closed on Wiki
Work on beats has now moved to git at https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/release-notes. If you have changes or additions, please contact the docs team via #fedora-docs, docs@lists.fedoraproject.org, or with the release-notes BZ component.