Re: [GNU-linux-libre] review PureOS ISO

[fr33domlover]

On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 16:34:27 -0700
"Adrian Alves"  wrote:

> Hello FSF,
> 
> We are Puri.sm our gnu/linux  PureOS is a free based debian distro,
> can you guys review it.
> We not only use Free software without any "contrib" or "non-free"
> software also our kernel is deblob'd
> We offer PureOS together with our laptops and also to any people who
> wants to use it:
> 
> links
> our main website: 
> https://puri.sm/
> our Pureos webtiste:
> https://puri.sm/pureos/
> ISOs:
> http://repo.puri.sm/pureosrepo/iso/PureOS-3.0-Desktop-gnome.iso
> 
> also "contrib" and "nonfree" repo are not only removed from the ISO
> also they are removed from our repos
> 
> Please can you review it and let us know?
> Thanks, Adrian.-
> 

Just a thought:

gNewSense is based on Debian too, and it seems to do much much more work than
just drop the nonfree repos (same for Trisquel with its base distro ubun7u). I
don't know the details, but I do wonder whether just dropping repos and using a
libre kernel is enough. Maybe it is, and then I wonder why gNewSense does all
that other work. If that work is needed, you puri.sm people should probably do
the same thing...

Or just give Trisquel to your users, which is a great stable distro and I think
it's an excellent default for new people joining the free software community
and taking the GNU path.

--fr33


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Re: [GNU-linux-libre] RLSD GNU/Linux-libre 2.x

[fr33domlover]

Hello,


On 2015-04-16
Jason Self ja...@bluehome.net wrote:

 Ineiev wrote:
  I'm not sure the exception should apply to it.
 
 Yeah, the idea was that it was for embedded distros that target
 machines with insufficient storage, RAM  CPU power to compile their
 own software themselves. The exception doesn't make much sense outside
 of the embedded world.


What if a distro is not self-hosting, but can be built from another fully free
distro which is on the FSF's list of free distros?

Consider that adding development tools and the entire toolchain for several
languages in which the tools are written, and handling dependencies, may be a
considerable amount of work. But what is the gain? RLSD already builds from
Trisquel iirc, i.e. it already builds from a fully free distro.

Does the fact that it can't build itself make it unsuitable for the FSF's list?
Perhaps the rules can be changed or an exception made? After all, how does it
really matter whether a distro builds itself or from another free distro,
especially if it's small without any development tools?


I'd ask RMS. Is he subscribed to this list (or should I send to him directly)?


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Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Doxygen: recommendation of nonfree browsers for SVG

[fr33domlover]

On 2015-02-19
Marco Chieppa | crap0101 crap0...@riseup.net wrote:

 Il giorno Sun, 15 Feb 2015 17:07:55 +0200
 fr33domlover fr33domlo...@riseup.net ha scritto:
 
  Hello,
  
  Doxygen is a program that generates documentation from specially formatted
  comments in source code.
  
  I used Doxygen a while ago to generate docs for some packages I made, and I
  noticed a string in the HTML output which mentions nonfree browsers. Today
  something reminded me of that and I decided to report it here. I went to the
  Doxygen's source code, unfortunately hosted on g1thu8, and found one
  occurence in line 2053 here:
  
  https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen/blob/fcc8e1f75c7c1a2ccb5ab6e42d3b6843589dc764/src/htmldocvisitor.cpp
  
 
 that's a comment, ii's not really used by the program.
 
 
 
 


Hmmm must be the wrong string then. I think I found the right one. See line
611 here:

https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen/blob/1d4f37cb13a75ca8bdc49be3558438104e7eef19/src/dot.cpp

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[GNU-linux-libre] Doxygen: recommendation of nonfree browsers for SVG

[fr33domlover]

Hello,

Doxygen is a program that generates documentation from specially formatted
comments in source code.

I used Doxygen a while ago to generate docs for some packages I made, and I
noticed a string in the HTML output which mentions nonfree browsers. Today
something reminded me of that and I decided to report it here. I went to the
Doxygen's source code, unfortunately hosted on g1thu8, and found one occurence
in line 2053 here:

https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen/blob/fcc8e1f75c7c1a2ccb5ab6e42d3b6843589dc764/src/htmldocvisitor.cpp

There may be more - I suppose distro packagers can `grep -r` the specific
doxygen versions they distribute, and find any occurences of this (e.g. in
JS-is-off alternative strings).

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