<html><head></head><body>Ubuntu is proprietary, at the kernel as well as DE and codecs (Amazon search anyone?)<br>
Nvidia gpus in System76 pcs run on blobs and they are dicks to noveau devs<br>
Intel Wi-Fi. Take a guess about iwl.<br>
It would be good if system76 actually made am EOMA68 device, but I'd be surprised if they pulled it off completely libre<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 April 2017 19:04:33 GMT+03:00, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:04:07PM -0700, Mike Leimon wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br /> I understand that Ubuntu isn't your distro of choice (it isn't mine either)<br /></blockquote><br />It isnt a question of whether Ubuntu is my distro of choice.<br />Distros can be replaced.<br /><br />The real question is whether it requires proprietry devce drivers.<br /><br />Did they use Ubuntu becaus of proprietary device drivers?<br /><br />Or because it happens to be one of the most popular distros around?<br /><br />I've been told Ubuntu has licenced proprietary software.<br /><br />I've been told Ubuntu has no proprietary device drivers. If that's <br />true, being able to run Ubuntu indicates some measure of long-term <br />safety, if not libre/freedom.<br /><br />I'm not sure what to believe.<br /><br />-- hendrik<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><hr /><br />arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk<br /><a href="http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook">http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook</a><br />Send large attachments to arm-netbook@files.phcomp.co.uk</pre></blockquote></div><br>
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