• argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
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    Debian had a very long and painful public debate to eventually depend exclusively on systemd, from Red Hat.

    As far as I know, systemd is only the default.

    At any rate, systemd is already in good working order, and it can and will be forked if necessary. More concerning is stuff like the Dogtag PKI system, which probably isn’t popular enough to be forked.

    I’m not so sure they choose wisely to heavily depend upon RH/IBM LGLP code.

    What exactly does “LGLP” mean?

    The new release is the first ever, I think, to offer non-free software by default.

    Firmware, not software. Wi-Fi firmware, GPU firmware, CPU microcode, that sort of thing. Made unfortunately necessary by modern hardware.

    Don’t consider it a betrayal of Debian ideals, because it’s not.

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        Firmware is software.

        Debatable.

        Example 1: The microcode hardwired on your CPU (the one before you upload an updated one into it on every boot). Is it software if it’s physically on the chip?

        Example 2: Let’s say you have some PCIe card which has a small FPGA chip on the board to handle say some signaling. Is the FPGA circuity software?

        I don’t have answers to these. I’m saying the lines are blurred when you look closely what’s software, what’s firmware and what’s hardware.

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          Fair point…but it seems the Debian stuff being included in their images is all software.

          Hey Zucca, I’ve not been around fgo much since around the time otw vanished but remember you from there and I’m still a happy portage user.

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            I sometimes miss OTW too. But at least there’s Other Things Open Source -subforum where general hardware talk is also fine. There have been few people now trying to create the very minimal RH -free Gentoo installation. I have hopes those people will eventually publish their works as profiles on their overlays.

            OTW died because world politic topics, imo. I hate when it ruins things.