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Sorry for my English, I am Uruguayan and I use the google translator .

Hello everyone, thank you very much for creating mageia.
THIS IS MY QUESTION: Mageia 2 DVD using linux-libre kernel that is approved by the Free Software Foundation without bloobs binaries?.
Thank you very much, and help you in this forum as much as possible .

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Licensing_policy

The DVD edition contains only free software. Non free packages are available from an online repository if required.
The kernel is fully free, but non free modules may be installed . Mageia also supplies a vanilla 'linus' kernel.

I'm not a technical expert, but I believe that Mageia's kernels are not what the FSF calls Linux-libre.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux-libre

Jim

Well, the kernel itself doesn't contain binary blobs, those were split out to the kernel-firmware packages. So you can easily remove them if you really want.