Henry Jensen <[email protected]> writes: > 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. >
Yes, we have been revisiting this question and will publish our analysis soon on the mailing list you linked to.. (For everyone's understanding, the nonfree firmware is not present on the system; it is an issue of potentially recommending/suggesting.) -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: A462 6CBA FF37 6039 D2D7 5544 97BA 9CE7 61A0 963B https://status.fsf.org/johns | https://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and support freedom at <https://my.fsf.org/join>. _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
