Re: [Trisquel-users] libreplanet, purism is in the exhibit hall

2017-03-23 Thread vitacell
Yes I know, coreboot can integrate blobs, and it does for Intel i series.

Re: [Trisquel-users] libreplanet, purism is in the exhibit hall

2017-03-23 Thread onpon4
> and flashed Coreboot/Libreboot. This is a confusing statement, and it's not very important, because Coreboot on modern Intel processors is just a shim for proprietary initialization blobs. It might be about as important as using a libre implementation of the ls command on Mac OS X. Very

Re: [Trisquel-users] libreplanet, purism is in the exhibit hall

2017-03-23 Thread vitacell
You should not care about it, you can install OS you want, blobbed or not. The important thing is neutralize ME (and other Intel's malware/bloatware) and flashed Coreboot/Libreboot.

Re: [Trisquel-users] libreplanet, purism is in the exhibit hall

2017-03-23 Thread calmstorm
Well, coreboot and libreboot both said that purism is not what they are interested in despite the fact they called themselves "purism" personally, I don't think they have a clue how much of an uphill battle they would have to make it blob free. But I also think they are selling tainted

Re: [Trisquel-users] libreplanet, purism is in the exhibit hall

2017-03-23 Thread leoo
Why don't they use Trisquel? Why did they insist on further dividing the community with their own OS? As the FSF says, https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html "If you wish to improve the state of free distros, helping to develop an existing free distro contributes more than starting

Re: [Trisquel-users] libreplanet, purism is in the exhibit hall

2017-03-23 Thread vitacell
Wow fkng great!! thanks for the information.

Re: [Trisquel-users] libreplanet, purism is in the exhibit hall

2017-03-22 Thread prian
They are presenting a Librem 13 running coreboot with a hacked ME. https://puri.sm/posts/todds-librem-13-with-coreboot-and-a-neutralized-me/

[Trisquel-users] libreplanet, purism is in the exhibit hall

2017-03-22 Thread svhaab
https://libreplanet.org/2017/exhibit-hall/ Purism is going to be present at libreplanet 2017. On this forum some say purism are fooling people. What does thinkpenguin think? Thinkpenguin will also be present in the exhibit hall.