Hello, Yasuaki, On May 16, 2022, Yasuaki Kudo <y...@yasuaki.com> wrote:
> The contradiction I see is that: > * Emacs runs on Windows. Instructions and reasons are stated clearly (as you > quoted) > * Guix OS technically runs on Linux (not just LibreLinux). However, > it is not "advertised" (the verb seemingly preferred by the community) > and even the discussion thereof is shunned. > So I am still left wondering 😅 I don't think the situations are similar. Say you have MS-Windows installed on your computer, and you wish to run GNU Emacs. You can install GNU Emacs built for MS-Windows, and it will work. I doubt you'd install MS-Windows just so that you could run GNU Emacs on your computer. For this reason alone, you'd be better off installing GNU/Linux rather than MS-Windows. So it's not like GNU Emacs would induce you to install a proprietary operating system even if it explicitly mentions support for it. Contrast that with a scenario in which you wish to run Guix OS. Whether you already have the non-Free kernel Linux installed on that computer is irrelevant: Guix OS's installer will install a kernel afresh. If you configure it to install a non-Free kernel, that's non-Free Software you're installing on your computer. If Guix OS's documentation were to tell you about this possibility, and tell you how to do it, it would be effectively encouraging and inducing you and countless other users to install non-Free Software that was not present on their computers before, and that would be getting installed because of the wish to run Guix OS on those computers. -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hacker https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/ Free Software Activist GNU Toolchain Engineer Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org> _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss