Op Tue, 03 Sep 2013 23:44:19 +0000 schreef tryn...@hushmail.com: > But if on gNewSense the pristine kernel can not be accomodated as in > Debian, pls. let me know, because then I am treading the path that > does not really have protection for my system, because I don't > believe there is any true protection in GNU/Linux with anything else > that is not Grsecurity/Pax, and without true security there is no > true freedom, what do you make of puritanist-free from all-and-any > proprietories packages OS if you don't have privacy to use that > machine you installed it on, as soon as you're on the internet?... > The letter is fundamental to freedom, and the purely free packages > the icing on top of it. And for the day that Grsecuriy/Pax will be > deployed on deblobbed kernels, for that day I live to see!
Software freedom is a prerequisite for privacy and security, so you're better off with a free operating system to which you can add components for better privacy (albeit with some effort) than with a system that claims to give you privacy but carries unverifiable blobs. gNewSense's kernel source package is the result of running Linux-libre's deblob script on Debian's kernel source. I did not check if the Grsecurity/Pax patch applies to it cleanly. _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list gNewSense-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
