Oh, just some silly people who think that systemd being the default has
somehow caused Debian to be infected, or something. Don't worry about it.
Agreed, if you want to run Debian no real reason for the linux libre kernel,
unless you want a newer feature of that kernel. Just do not use the non-free
and contrib repos.
Cannot recommend Devuan yet, as it is still loosely organized.
Indeed. In 2011's Debian Squeeze, they removed all blobs from the Debian
distribution of the kernel. It is (as far as I can gather) effectively
Linux-libre. If you want to run a free Debian system, only enable the
main repository (this is the default), and you'll be safe.
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PS. What is the point of Devuan? It's ostensibly Debian with sysvinit as
opposed to systemd, but I don't really see the point. Debian comes
packaged with all three init systems (as of 8.1); you can choose which
to activate (admittedly, after install).
Many thanks, Magic Banana, for your detailed reply :-) Things are clearer to
me now.
I thought Ubuntu had a way to always tweak Debian packages that didn't make
things easy for outer developers.
I knew Debian Linux was free yet I thought there was still some difference
with Linux Libre.
When I run vrms, I can't find any non free stuff. But is vrms reliable?
it will detect if a debian package installed on your system is free or not
but it wont detect everything
say if you had a non-free program that was stored in your home directory
As far as freedom is concerned, I was
Ubuntu does not add freedom issues in Debian's packages. Well, it actually
does for the kernel packages but Trisquel's kernel is cooked from
Linux-libre's code (a GNU subproject).
Actually, Trisquel takes Ubuntu's kernel packages and runs the Linux-libre
deblob scripts on them. So
You mean former oldstable.
Yes. Debian is by default 100% libre (it has been since Debian 6).
The kernel is deblobbed.
Yes. You can install the jxself's kernel in Debian. In fact I am using
3.10.80 in Debian 8 stable Xfce and everything works flawlessly. I get all
the updates.
I have an ati crap and recent kernels
Now oldoldstable.
I've used Trisquel on and off. I liked Trisquel 4 very much. Not so sure
about Trisquel 7 though. The LXDE version at least doesn't seem as polished
as it used to be but I see that I can use Trisquel 6 for a long time yet and
I'll give it a go.
I've been using Debian Wheezy and enjoyed
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