Slackware-libre

Darth Vader · 04-19-2018, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Ne01eX

I don't know... maybe need to exclude EFI support from Freenix? Seriously.

Bwaaahahahaha! You made me to buy tomorrow a new keyboard, because I spilled coffee all over it.

I have an even better proposal: your Linux-Libre kernel shall detect if it runs in top of LibreBoot, and to go Kernel Panic otherwise.

Its ability of running exclusively in the top of LibreBoot will ensure the rac... err, software purity.

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Originally Posted by Ne01eX

How does the GPL-community view this?

By the "GPL-community" you understand Comrade Stallman? Just asking...

ttk · 04-19-2018, 03:39 PM

EFI itself is not free software, but AFAIK the software for supporting EFI is free software.

I think if you want to go this route, you would want to remove the EFI firmware from your system, not the support for it from your OS.

One must consider the "why" of it, though. If the main objective is to make everything in Freenix legal to use in a business setting, then EFI is neither here nor there.

Darth Vader · 04-19-2018, 03:43 PM

So, now it is not legal to use EFI firmware in a business setup? Interesting...

BTW, in which country happens that?

khronosschoty · 04-19-2018, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Darth Vader

So, now it is not legal to use EFI firmware in a business setup? Interesting...

BTW, in which country happens that?

trololol