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Re: [H-source-users] [PATCH 6/6] Add Guix system with GNU/Hurd to the di
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bill-auger |
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Re: [H-source-users] [PATCH 6/6] Add Guix system with GNU/Hurd to the distro list |
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Mon, 25 Jul 2022 23:39:51 -0400 |
On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 05:02:38 +0200 Denis wrote:
> I also wonder what would happen if we have strange reports about intel
> wifi working on these distributions.
> On Trisquel 10 for instance we can be pretty confident that it doesn't
> ship nonfree firmwares
my point was that no such guessing or assumptions should be
necessary - the list of known libre kernel modules is relatively
small
the general purpose of h-node is to determine which hardware
works with libre software - to answer that question, the distro
name is quite irrelevant - it is at best, a heuristic - a
trisquel user can easily install the ubuntu kernel; which would
foil the heuristic completely
even without mentioning any distro names, all truly relevant
information is captured deterministically, in the kernel version
and the kernel module in use
even the distinctions between HURD, linux-libre, the debian
linux, and the upstream linux are not actually relevant