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From: Quiliro Ordonez <quiliro@riseup.net>
To: Help Guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: proposal to remove linux-Libre from Guix
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 13:34:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8c65bf4ce790c911656cf1470c30fccc@riseup.net> (raw)

Fellow freedom mates:

Even though linux-Libre is a great kernel because it provides good
technical value as well as freedom value, our advocacy for freedom is
greatly hindered when people call our project a Linux distribution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guix_System_Distribution
Our advocacy for freedom is confused with the advocacy Linux for more
technology and tangentially advocating slavery without remorse.

I propose to eliminate linux-Libre from the repos and add kFreeBSD. A
new repository, separate from Guix and not connected to the project
could be created in order to add linux-Libre. That way, GuixSD could in
no way be ever called a Linux distribution. An action like this could
even help all other GNU distros as well as distinguish GuixSD from all.

I know the port of kFreeBSD to Debian has been discontinued. But I found
this document about how it was done.
https://salsa.debian.org/bsd-team/web/raw/master/porting/PORTING
at the kFreeBSD port on the Debian wiki. I think we could take it from
where they left.

The best option would be to make Hurd usable because it is GNU's natural
kernel. But I think this is a longer range project.

What do you think about either of these possibilities and what do you
think the steps should be to make it a reality?

Happy hacking.
Quiliro

             reply	other threads:[~2019-03-28 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-28 20:34 Quiliro Ordonez [this message]
2019-03-28 21:38 ` proposal to remove linux-Libre from Guix Ricardo Wurmus
2019-03-28 22:38   ` Quiliro Ordonez
2019-03-29  0:21     ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-03-29 15:48       ` ng0
2019-03-29 18:51         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-03-30  6:58           ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2019-03-29 18:24       ` Quiliro Ordonez
2019-03-28 22:04 ` L p R n d n
2019-03-28 22:29   ` Quiliro Ordonez

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