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From: Ekaitz Zarraga <ekaitz@elenq.tech>
To: gfp <gfp@posteo.at>, Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>
Cc: Guix Help <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: question about proprietory packages
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 21:59:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0b8d842d-746b-4980-a6aa-9f560ef6a964@elenq.tech> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1b1e0a60-4ba2-42a9-bdc2-5912217f07f9@posteo.at>

Hi,

On 2025-01-08 9:50 PM, gfp wrote:
> Hi Felix,
> 
> I bought a laptop of the company Tuxedo
> where I can disable IME.

Don't they disable that by default?

> The options were really tricky. Difficult.

Yes they are, but you can do it!

> I will check again, if they enabled it again. Hopefully not.
> 
> I didn´t install any proprietary in the beginning.
> But I don´t know, and that´s why my question,
> if on my laptop is something installed beforehand.
> I don´t have enough knowledge about boot process etc.
> 
> I assume Shepherd is the Guix init system like systemd in other linux 
> distros. Is that right?

Yes.
> What is Grub? Is EFI a part of Grub?

Grub is a bootloader.

In a very simplified way, which I hope is right:

1. EFI runs Grub.
2. Grub chooses the kernel to run and runs it.
3. The kernel runs the init system, which prepares everything for you.

> I guess Guix community replaced "EFI" with "grubx64.efi"
> that´s why we can find this file in the boot/EFI folder.

No, Grub is an EFI application (some software that can be launched from 
EFI). EFI is going to search in the /boot/efi folder for the 
applications that it can run. That's why Grub has to be there.

>  > Booring often requires proprietary firmware blobs
> 
> What do you mean by "Booring" I don´t understand this word?
> Thanks

I think he means Booting, with T.

> Gottfried
> 
Hope this helps,
Ekaitz


  reply	other threads:[~2025-01-08 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-08 17:16 question about proprietory packages gfp
2025-01-08 17:51 ` Felix Lechner via
2025-01-08 20:50   ` gfp
2025-01-08 20:59     ` Ekaitz Zarraga [this message]
2025-01-08 22:26       ` gfp
2025-01-08 22:47         ` Ekaitz Zarraga
2025-01-09  3:25         ` Ian Eure

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