20 Sep
2006
20 Sep
'06
18:53
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 12:16, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Tuesday 2006-09-19 at 23:35 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
Taint simply means one is doing more with the machine than the original kernel developers were able to supply. It simply means you can take a module designed for another platform and run it in a sandbox and make it work in Linux. The solution is brilliant.
Not really. Tainted means that you loaded some "closed" software, which in
Not necessarily. The "tainted" flag has several different meanings. One (probably the one you're thinking of) is "non-GPL", but that doesn't necessarily mean closed. Apart from that you also have the "unsupported" tainting flag.