On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 01:55:21AM -0300, Quantum Robin wrote: > Are there operating > systems that ship without blobs? > > If yes, what are the operating > systems that ship without blobs?
OpenBSD does not ship with blobs. Ever. That was a major theme s number of years ago. Firmware is not considered a blob since this is strictly hardware related code. No firmware, device won't work. Nvidia is an excellent example of a company 100% hostile to Open Source code. They refuse to release anything needed to even allow someone to write the necessary firmware/software. So, anything that fully supports Nvidia is running proprietary secret blobs. Yuck. These blobs may be harmless, but who knows? So if you are shopping for an OS, you can put a checkmark for OpenBSD in the no blobs list. Beyond that, the list may or may not want to discuss other OS's. Probably not. Since this topic has come up and it's personally useful to me to reply elsewhere about security elsewhere right now, could someone reply to both of us off-list about this topic? Otherwise, we are getting into other OS junk that IMHO is not appropriate here. Chris Bennett
