Re: What's Your Go-to OS for
By: Accession to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Feb 17 2025 07:18 am
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> I'm not sure what "all-free" means these days, to be honest. I thought
> Debian went "all-free" a long time ago, getting rid of proprietary software
> and drivers and instead using free open-source stuff. That was a while ago,
> though, so maybe things have changed.. or the definition of "all-free"
> doesn't mean what I think it does any more. :)
Typical "all-free" don't have binary blobs or unidentifiable data streams in the
kernel code. Most Linux distributions do pack kernels with some opaque componen
ts. All-free distributions do away with those, and typically also make it harder
to download support software with questionable licensing models -such as firmwa
re for hardware support and the like.
Debian does noc really count as an all-free solution because the install media c
omes qith some proprietary firmware and does not packa cleansed kernel as far as
I know.
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