Subj : Re: What's Your Go-to OS for
To   : Accession
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Feb 17 2025 10:03:28

-=> Accession wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 > Devuan is debian without systemd, Trisquel is the all-free Linux
 > distro. You were right.

 Ac> I'm not sure what "all-free" means these days, to be honest. I thought
 Ac> Debian went "all-free" a long time ago, getting rid of proprietary
 Ac> software and drivers and instead using free open-source stuff. That was
 Ac> a while ago, though, so maybe things have changed.. or the definition
 Ac> of "all-free" doesn't mean what I think it does any more. :)

I think it's mostly focused on free drivers - although for the longest
time, Ubuntu has had the option of only loading free drivers and no
proprietary blobs.

It always felt a bit performative to me, but maybe that's just my
imagination. RMS was always touting it as the Free Linux.


 
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