Since they billed the machine "open laptop" I wrote to Bunnie:
>I see you're using the vanilla Linux kernel with blobs and all. Are you
aware of the Linux-libre project which is Linux minus the binary blobs? Have
you tried whether Novena runs on Linux-libre?
>
> If it does, it would surely make more sense to switch to Linux-libre
instead of Linux for maximum openness.
To which he answered:
Well, there might be blobs in the distro proper, but the set of items we
configure the board with don't require the blobs, so in fact the code that
actually runs is blob-free. I'm not too bothered if there are inert blobs
laying around on the hard drive.
A goal of ours is to incorporate our work into the mainline linux trunk, so
it's easier for others to branch and make derivatives. If we start with a
sub-branch, we start to fall behind the mainline -- it's already hard enough
to push patches into Linus' tree.
-b.
