Post AperVVfVPENeXtUeIa by adachi@the.asbestos.cafe
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(DIR) Post #ApeFZYtPZ0DXRhVERc by adachi@the.asbestos.cafe
2025-01-01T19:42:15.094764Z
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@sally The year: 2029.I open up my IBM Redhat laptop, and boot up my SystemD/Linux operating system. I come to the SystemD-Bootloader boot screen and select SystemdOS (formerly Fedora linux). The SystemD init system runs, and I'm greeted with the SystemD login screen, I punch in my password and username, and I am greeted with the SystemD TTY, I can select from various SystemD coreutils. I run SystemD-Wayland and boot into my SystemDE. I open up the SystemD-Web browser running on the SystemD-webkit, and run tasks on the web. I remember its about time to update SystemdOS so I open up SystemD-Terminal and run SystemD-update, I run System-run0 to authenticate my identity, allowing SystemD-Update to run. 2000 packages to upgrade. That's when my SystemD-RSS newsfeed gives me a SystemD-Notification. I shake with excitement, work is being done to finally replace the insecure, archaic Linux kernel with a brand new SystemD-Kernel slated for release in Q2 2030. I can barely contain myself, I think I cum a little. I experience a SystemDgasm like no other. I spin around like a school girl in my chair, I turn to face my SystemD-Poster on my wall of Lenerd Pottering, it's cum stained from my many intimate sessions with it, i stroke the poster lovingly, I stand up and kiss Pottering on his SystemD-Lips, SystemdOS will finally be free of outside influence, this is the greatest day of my SystemD-Life.
(DIR) Post #ApeFoczOcByGUjUCRc by sally@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-01-01T19:44:26.706724Z
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@adachiOpen source lolcows don't see the problem with this.I'm glad I learned runit and OpenRC this year.
(DIR) Post #ApeFpSecWgFYjMALHU by adachi@the.asbestos.cafe
2025-01-01T19:45:30.573698Z
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@sally Gentoo by default is OpenRC so that's what I use.
(DIR) Post #ApeHlvQLonmihzvuUq by sally@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-01-01T20:01:57.116517Z
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@adachiI installed Gentoo recently for the first time on bare metal, it's steadily becoming my favorite GNU distribution. I should learn to install it on encrypted partitions.
(DIR) Post #ApeHlweDGkT2VHQUk4 by adachi@the.asbestos.cafe
2025-01-01T20:04:56.908072Z
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@sally FSF's reason for not including it autistic since its free by default and you have to actively accept a non-free license to install linux-firmware or non-free gamesI've used it since summer 2021 and i love it.
(DIR) Post #ApeIkW9EPPQzyromum by Cyrillic@lab.nyanide.com
2025-01-01T20:18:28.784647Z
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@adachi @sally I may start using it myself then, kde is a shithole, consistent memory leaks, sleep functionality being broken etc.
(DIR) Post #Aper1rMqAJLJ9kcn1k by sally@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-01-01T20:07:09.097597Z
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@adachi> since its free by defaultIt isn't, but it's unintended.
(DIR) Post #Aper1sRq9Cw6VXyISW by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-01-02T02:42:30.893633Z
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@sally @adachi The stage3 archives alone are free by default, but that's primarily only because they don't come with Linux or much else.The default "@FREE" license set approves the nonfree Artistic license by default - so you need to set ACCEPT_LICENSE="-* @FREE -Artistic" yourself to make portage accept only free software by default.All the Linux ebuilds they provide are proprietary versions of Linux, incorrectly marked as LICENSE="GPL-2" instead of LICENSE="GPL-2 no-source-code".It is almost certain that there is other nonfree software with an incorrect LICENSE too.Software that respects the users freedom doesn't encourage the users to install proprietary malware by filling the ebuild tree chock full of proprietary software.
(DIR) Post #AperVTloSoEmesQequ by adachi@the.asbestos.cafe
2025-01-01T20:38:07.896806Z
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@sally What do you mean? The install USB?
(DIR) Post #AperVUpOWyhFwH724e by sally@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-01-01T21:23:31.621790Z
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@adachiNo, the kernels.
(DIR) Post #AperVVfVPENeXtUeIa by adachi@the.asbestos.cafe
2025-01-01T21:25:08.010495Z
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@sally Surely the only proprietary part of the kernel is WIFI drivers? The installation USB will have these in, but wireless LAN drivers aren't enabled by default in gentoo.
(DIR) Post #AperVWPadtFAqp3S88 by sally@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-01-01T21:32:49.377139Z
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@adachiNo, they did remove all proprietary drivers and software but there's still proprietary bits that they can't be bordered removing, someone discussed this issue on their mail list.You can just download Linux-libre, compile it and install it either way.
(DIR) Post #AperVX3eExHor3nRZI by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-01-02T02:47:48.158682Z
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@sally @adachi >No, they did remove all proprietary drivers and softwareThe Linux developers did no such thing.A couple years ago they moved some of the proprietary peripheral software to "linux-firmware", but not all of it and they keep occasionally array-encoding proprietary software and adding it - such added software is only occasionally moved to "linux-firmware" - typically it stays there unless and until it becomes totally obsolete (i.e. appletalk).Many drivers in Linux are only half of the driver - the other half is proprietary peripheral software that runs on the peripheral device and those drivers are therefore proprietary.
(DIR) Post #ApfJyEF04rT7brZuoi by lxo@gnusocial.jp
2025-01-02T08:04:01Z
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FSF's reason for not including it [is] autisticbesides the discriminatory language, it's factually wrong: several FSF-approved distros include it, because it is indeed Free Software, despite having been forced by very questionable means into multiple distrosyou missed a great chance to write SystemDOS in the og ;-)
(DIR) Post #ApfJyFGSGwE6mfGaiu by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-01-02T08:06:46.486019Z
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@lxo @adachi He was referring to Gentoo; https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html#GentooI don't understand how systemd is so bad, since it is free software written in C.
(DIR) Post #ApfbQznsX6QwS3CAng by sally@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-01-02T11:01:39.728461Z
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@Suiseiseki@adachi > The Linux developers did no such thing.Obviously they didn't, but the Gentoo maintainers did.
(DIR) Post #ApfbR0tEUgJJowhxmi by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-01-02T11:21:45.544446Z
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@sally @adachi The Gentoo maintainers do not make any modifications to Linux to patch out any proprietary software (aside from one ebuild that has an option to run the Linux-libre patching script).
(DIR) Post #ApfgY5KCu0KLNEW52m by sally@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-01-02T11:40:30.135550Z
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@Suiseiseki@adachi > (aside from one ebuild that has an option to run the Linux-libre patching script)How?
(DIR) Post #ApfgY6auBPHJJJKvi4 by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-01-02T11:54:58.917021Z
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@sally @adachi Linux-libre offers the deblob script standalone, as it works on both mainline Linux and patched versions; https://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/6.12.7-gnu/deblob-6.12For example, you can apply the RT_PREEMPT patchset and then run the deblob script; https://packages.gentoo.org/useflags/deblobThere is also a checking script to check if proprietary software has been missed; https://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/6.12.7-gnu/deblob-check
(DIR) Post #ApgiGFY4Xwecw4aKga by lxo@gnusocial.jp
2025-01-02T23:38:54Z
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I see, thanks, I couldn't pick that up from the contextSystemD appears to be part of what I've come to conceive of as a complexity attack on the free software world. programs that are so complex and/or massive that, although the freedoms are technically available to users, they're effectively out of reach. I haven't developed those thoughts enough to write extensively about it, but it seems to be a real issue that we need to watch out forbut systemd is hardly the worst at this attack. what I really dislike about it was the way it was forced down people's throats, the adoption of nontextual files that require systemd tools to read when you most don't need such barriers because the system is down and systemd is not working