Thank you, you should hear GNUs from us soon regarding routers with fully
free systems and fully free boot firmware.
We were planning to launch routers two years ago, but LibreCMC configs were
missing for their supported targets and ThinkPenguin's "heavily modified"
u-boot sources were not public either:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/thinkpenguins-heavily-modified-version-u-boot
Also LibreCMC developer working for ThinkPenguin was refusing proposals from
the community (on the now defunct mailing list librecmc-dev) to include
targets that were compatible with fully free systems and fully free boot
firmware, choosing instead to focus only on the routers ThinkPenguin had
commercial interest in.
https://librecmc.org/mailman/listinfo/librecmc-dev
Since then we have decided to work with a different fully free system for our
routers. ;-)
-------% Please update your "supported hardware" page: if more people will
> know that their devices are compatible with LibreCMC (even if its hard to
> install it on some of devices without specia[l] tools like flashers)
> then LibreCMC will receive more users and gain popularity!
Just because a device appears on a hardware list, supported or
otherwise, it will not increase the popularity of the project. The goal
of libreCMC is to provide a fully free embedded OS (GNU/Linux or
otherwise), not to be part of a larger "popularity" contest. If
libreCMC becomes popular, that is great, but the project's goal does
not include popularity.
Right now, the last thing the libreCMC project needs is to
[artificially] grow out its user base. The focus of the project, right
now, is to clean things up and make the OS/distro [1] smaller. libreCMC
will gain popularity over time because it is fully free and because of
its technological merits, not the list of shitty hardware that it
[won't] support[s].
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