Am Fri, 09 Mar 2018 01:33:12 +0100 schrieb John Sullivan <[email protected]>:
> "[email protected]" <[email protected]> writes: > > > Again I still can't understand as to why purism gets so much air > > time on the FSF website and the tech news media yet legitimately > > libre hardware gets none. > > > > "PureOS" is simply a debian clone used to peddle non-free laptops > > and now purism has obtained an implied endorsement from the FSF. > > That is not an accurate description. PureOS is an endorsed > distribution because it has committed to upholding the Guidelines for > Free System Distribution. It made a number of important changes from > Debian in order to achieve that. PureOS uses the same Linux kernel as Debian (i.e. not Linux-Libre), which some people regard as a bug, because log messages like this appear: iwlwifi: 0000:03:00.0 firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-6000g2a-6.ucode which indicates, that the kernel is looking for a non-free firmware blob. By reading this message in the log file a user could learn about it and be tempted to install this non-free software. See also this thread: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2017-12/msg00004.html It was suggested, that this issue "was missed" when endorsing PureOS, which I can't hardly imagine, because the used kernel is usually the first thing to look at when reviewing a distro. Regards, Henry _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
