Re: proposal to remove linux-Libre from Guix

2019-03-30 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Let’s work on the Hurd, people! It’s beautiful! FWIW the Mes port to the Hurd is ongoing and mes now runs, next thing up is fork which we need for running mescc. janneke -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com |

Re: proposal to remove linux-Libre from Guix

2019-03-29 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
n...@n0.is writes: > Unlike Hurd or Linux they do not easily provide just a kernel (the > closest to "just a kernel" is NetBSD rumpkernel). And the circle is closed with the Hurd using NetBSD rumpkernel as a “server” to run NetBSD device drivers. Let’s work on the Hurd, people! It’s

Re: proposal to remove linux-Libre from Guix

2019-03-29 Thread Quiliro Ordonez
El 2019-03-29 00:21, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice escribió: > Quiliro Ordonez wrote: >> El 2019-03-28 21:38, Ricardo Wurmus escribió: >>> 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

Re: proposal to remove linux-Libre from Guix

2019-03-29 Thread ng0
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice transcribed 1.2K bytes: > Quiliro Ordonez wrote: > > El 2019-03-28 21:38, Ricardo Wurmus escribió: > > > 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

Re: proposal to remove linux-Libre from Guix

2019-03-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Quiliro Ordonez wrote: El 2019-03-28 21:38, Ricardo Wurmus escribió: 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. Switching from a

Re: proposal to remove linux-Libre from Guix

2019-03-28 Thread Quiliro Ordonez
El 2019-03-28 21:38, Ricardo Wurmus escribió: > Quiliro Ordonez 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 >>

Re: proposal to remove linux-Libre from Guix

2019-03-28 Thread Quiliro Ordonez
> I'm not sure to understand what you mean. Could you try to explain a bit > more what what would be the fimal goal? The objective of a free distro is to give freedom to the users. It is archievable with linux-Libre. But most people that use GNU do not consider it an important project because

Re: proposal to remove linux-Libre from Guix

2019-03-28 Thread L p R n d n
Hello, I'm not sure to understand what you mean. Could you try to explain a bit more what what would be the fimal goal? Thanks, Lprndn