Subj : What's Your Go-to OS for
To   : Accession
From : Arelor
Date : Tue Feb 18 2025 09:32:37

  Re: What's Your Go-to OS for
  By: Accession to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Feb 17 2025 07:18 am

 >
 > 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 components. All-free distributions do away with those, and typically also make it harder to download support software with questionable licensing models -such as firmware for hardware support and the like.

Debian does noc really count as an all-free solution because the install media comes qith some proprietary firmware and does not packa cleansed kernel as far as I know.


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