El 2019-03-28 21:38, Ricardo Wurmus escribió: > Quiliro Ordonez <[email protected]> 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.
OK. > All this for merely giving people a reason to stop using the term “Linux > distribution”? No. It is for helping people value the project and thus consider freedom more valueable than any other feature. > 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). It is not an imperative to abandon linux-Libre. It is just a hack to change the political view of users. As it is possible to install any package from any repo as easily as installing Guix, it is possible to have linux-Libre in another repo. It would not be a technical change if there is another default usable kernel. It would be a political choice. > PS: in case this was meant as a joke: it’s hard to be sure on this > Internet of ours :) It is not a joke. But wouldn't it be a good one for April 1st?
