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There are not so many running mainline Linux with all free drivers.
by fsflover 5mo ago
There are not so many running mainline Linux with all free drivers.
- rasz 5mo agoChip intended for this thing is also heavily blobbed. Even the creator lists "Push vendors to open up their existing closed-source code and ditch binary blobs entirely." as one of the goals as if small niche gadget had any chance of erven nudging the needle. We are talking Rockchip, company mired in numerous GPL violations with latest nuking their github repository early this year.
- fsflover 5mo agoAnd yet a smartphone running an FSF-endorsed distro does exist, so it's possible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librem_5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librem_5. Not free of firmware blobs though.