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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -3.22 X-Spam-Score: -3.22 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: DCC731367A X-Migadu-Scanner: mx10.migadu.com X-TUID: 9D7pkVyhfurO If we run QubesOS on POWER9 or future PowerISA 3.1 hardware, no non- free blobs will be needed. I do not trust Intel and AMD anyway, so I plan to migrate away from Radeon to a future freedom respecting GPU. On Fri, 2023-10-27 at 23:41 +0000, Skyler wrote: > Hello, >=20 > Would you be able to accept pull requests which add packages to > integrate Guix with QubesOS as a guest? I ask because QubesOS does > not (and does not intend to) comply with the Free System Distribution > Guidelines, the primary problem being that their dom0 includes binary > blobs. Guix maintains the FSDG standard, which is a good thing. But > part of the FSDG says that the distribution cannot "steer users > towards obtaining any nonfree information for practical use, or > encourage them to do so". I could see a reasonable argument that > providing compatibility with a non-free system steers users in that > direction, but it seems like a grey area. >=20 > Projecting further into the future, I would expect that packaging all > of QubesOS infrastructure in Guix, so that Guix could run as dom0 > with Guix guests, would be fine, because then users would not need to > install any non-free software in order to use these features (the > code developed specifically for QubesOS is free software, mostly > GPL2+ from what I've seen). >=20 > Any feedback is appreciated. >=20 > Thanks, > Skyler