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Switch to a Fully free Operating System (piefed.social)
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As per fsf only those linux distributions are 100% free:

Dragora
Dyne
Guix
Hyperbola
Parabola
PureOS
Trisquel
Ututo
libreCMC
ProteanOS

Do you agree or no?

I see a lot of people that want to switch from windows to a linux distro or a open os. But from what i see they tend to migrate to another black boxed/closed os.

What is a trully free os that doesnt included any closed code/binary blobs/closed drivers etc.

Just 100% free open code, no traps.

What are the options and what should one go with if they want fully free os that rejects any closed code?

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[–] vapeloki@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What a bunch of bullshit.

Linux, first of all, is the kernel. Linux is GPL and always free.

And userspace zurück itself is about 90% free.

Of course, you can choose a 100% free os, then make sure you use a free bios and only open hardware CPU and Mainboard and memory! 09 This argument is esoteric. I am an FSF member, but I use Steam on Gentoo.

The idea behind such distro lists is to show how hard it still is to provide a really 100% open source distro.

Let me remind you, what is non free in in most systems:

  • CPU microcode!
  • GPU Firmware
  • Wifi / BT / Ethernet firmware
  • Media Codecs

Stuff most users need!

And what the fuck is I distro locking me in? I can switch my distro between boots without fucking loosing any data or configs, I can choose what to install. I can install stuff from source. How can you even try to compare this with Microsofts property black box?

Because you can not see what the microcode blob does with your CPU? The CPU you can not inspect also? Or the GPU? Or the BIOS?

[–] nixfreak@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 day ago

I agree , I use multiple distros including #guix use nongnu software because I can’t get libre drivers. Not sure where “vendor lock-in” for Linux distribution comes from. FSF is great but I don’t have the resources , time to find all the libre drivers for my systems. I have been using Linux/BSD for decades. Also Linux is just a kernel not the userland which most people think it is.