On Monday 25. April 2016 13.24.46 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > now, as far as picking OSes is concerned that are FSF-Endorseable, > we've got an interesting situation where we'll need some porting and > packaging help. there basically aren't any good libre OSes for ARM > (due to canonical's recent blatant GPL violations and record on > privacy, those based on ubuntu *not* being "good", plus trisquel is > currently based on ubuntu 8.04 which doesn't have an ARM port), and > the only one for MIPS is gnewsense and that's been custom-targetted at > the leemote laptop.
Debian is available for mipsel. If it weren't, I wouldn't be able to put it on the Ben NanoNote (jz4725) and there probably wouldn't be any cross-compilers in Debian for mipsel, either. I can't say much about the desktop stack here because the Ben doesn't have enough memory to run something like KDE. ;-) > the thing is though, that the current situation for > FSF-Endorseability of hardware is even worse than it appears, due to > the simple fact that there *aren't* any modern FSF-Endorseable x86 > processors.... period. *all* intel processors of the past 15 years > require a proprietary RSA-signed piece of firmware in order to boot, > and all AMD processors require a licensed proprietary piece of > firmware from Intel because AMD licensed intel's HDMI interface. > > so... err.... basically, the approach that i'm taking, slow as it's > progressing, actually stands to be the first modern "Good Enough > Computing" [1] hardware that *can* actually be FSF-Endorsed. There's been a discussion on the FSFE discussion list about this, with someone advocating the POWER architecture for high-end products as an alternative to x86(-64). I think people are realising that they might need some other irons in the fire. http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2016-April/010912.html Paul _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk