oswaldkelso wrote:I was referring to the almost defacto lip service to only to "The official Debian images do not contain any non-free code" . Now since the great Ubuntu influx and now the more recent Windows user influx, every Tom, **** & Harry links to or puts contrib and non-free in their sources.list.
Notwithstanding the silly actions of foolish users, it is still true that the official Debian images and repositories *do not* contain any non-free code.
I would hazard that most users employ the unofficial images in order to obtain the firmware blobs and I would humbly point out that any hardware in your computer that does not load it's firmware blobs from the operating system instead has the firmware blob embedded at the point of production.
Bet it's there by default just commented out?
No it isn't. Please don't do that.
not to play friggin Steam.
Hey! Steam is awesome, I would gladly sign any Faustian pact to play CS:GO
I was also referring to the blobby kernel as compared to Linux-Libre
There are differences between what the DFSG classifies as "free" and the FSF definition but the Debian kernel definitely has no blobs, that's for sure.
Are you just here to FUD?
Firefox and pulseaudio! wtf.
I am posting this from my Alpine Linux system using FF, there is no PA and sound works just fine
But yes, I do agree with you generally, bloody Mozilla...
ALSA is part of the Linux kernel, while PulseAudio and JACK are not. So like wise instead of a direct connection to ALSA you need to install a bunch of middleware. Of course I can get around it by installing apulse. Soon we'll need a whole bunch of bloat to undo all the crap that's enforced on us. It should not be like that.
My OpenBSD system has a unified audio stack and it is developed by the same team who work on the kernel, it's ace.
I would recommend it to you but...
Can we fork it and apply the GPL?
systemd was GPL'd but has been LGPL'd since 2012. It's license is a mute point to me as it's the copyright holders that I find scary. Imagine in 10 years time when most people use systemd and it's underlieing 769 processes. Gnome and KDE are the only desktops and they make it non free because Microsoft give Lennart a load of money and buy Red Hat
Corprate power means it may as well be non free now. Because no fork has the man power to keep up with changes that a large multi billion dollor company can implement.
Red Hat have been controlling kernel development for many years now, that horse has bolted.