Quiliro Ordonez <quil...@riseup.net> writes:
> 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. This is not a reasonable goal and it is not a productive proposal for a number of reasons. If you want to port the GNU system to have it use the FreeBSD kernel you are welcome to give it a try, but this would be a *major* undertaking that I can only advise against. The GNU C library does not natively support the FreeBSD kernel, so it is a *much* less realistic goal than to build a Hurd-based Guix system. All this for merely giving people a reason to stop using the term “Linux distribution”? Linux libre is one of the GNU system’s supported kernels; why should we limit our options just because of the terms other people use? If people choose to call Guix a “Linux distribution” that’s their decision (and it is understandable from their perspective even if we disagree with that point of view) – it would be foolish to interpret this situation as an imperative to abandon Linux(-libre). -- Ricardo PS: in case this was meant as a joke: it’s hard to be sure on this Internet of ours :)