Le 13/04/2019 à 09:23, Chris Bennett a écrit : > On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 01:55:21AM -0300, Quantum Robin wrote: >> Are there operating >> systems that ship without blobs? >> >> If yes, what are the operating >> systems that ship without blobs? > OpenBSD does not ship with blobs. Ever. > That was a major theme s number of years ago. > > Firmware is not considered a blob since this is strictly hardware > related code. No firmware, device won't work. > > Nvidia is an excellent example of a company 100% hostile to Open Source > code. They refuse to release anything needed to even allow someone to > write the necessary firmware/software. > > So, anything that fully supports Nvidia is running proprietary secret > blobs. Yuck. These blobs may be harmless, but who knows? > > So if you are shopping for an OS, you can put a checkmark for OpenBSD in > the no blobs list. > > Beyond that, the list may or may not want to discuss other OS's. > Probably not. > > Since this topic has come up and it's personally useful to me to reply > elsewhere about security elsewhere right now, could someone reply to > both of us off-list about this topic? > > Otherwise, we are getting into other OS junk that IMHO is not > appropriate here. > > Chris Bennett > > > Another approach towards a totally free system is to choose hardware that does not need blobs and/or non-free firmware. I am using a ThinkPad X200 where even the bios is free (Libreboot -- a de-blobbed version of Coreboot). OpenBSD runs very well on this system. It is quite old (2008), but adding up to 8 GB RAM and an SSD made it more than good enough. I am retired now, so I don't need a super-duper system for work, but even for that it could be usable. I am writing a lot and it is perfect...
Cheers, Oddmund Garvik
