[Arm-netbook] System 76 - Entering Phase 3

[Allan Mwenda]

Ubuntu is proprietary, at the kernel as well as DE and codecs (Amazon search anyone?)
Nvidia gpus in System76 pcs run on blobs and they are dicks to noveau devs
Intel Wi-Fi. Take a guess about iwl.
It would be good if system76 actually made am EOMA68 device, but I'd be surprised if they pulled it off completely libre

On 21 April 2017 19:04:33 GMT+03:00, Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:04:07PM -0700, Mike Leimon wrote:
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>> I understand that Ubuntu isn't your distro of choice (it isn't mine
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>It isnt a question of whether Ubuntu is my distro of choice.
>Distros can be replaced.
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>The real question is whether it requires proprietry devce drivers.
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>Did they use Ubuntu becaus of proprietary device drivers?
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>Or because it happens to be one of the most popular distros around?
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>I've been told Ubuntu has licenced proprietary software.
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>I've been told Ubuntu has no proprietary device drivers.  If that's 
>true, being able to run Ubuntu indicates some measure of long-term 
>safety, if not libre/freedom.
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>I'm not sure what to believe.
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>-- hendrik
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