I'm like this post but I use GNU Guix System instead of Gentoo and GNU Boot instead of the old fully free Libreboot (and I have my own appartment lol).
Some computers do not require having the ME firmware installed. Usually, these are computers supported by a 100% free BIOS replacement such as GNU Boot (see the compatible models on the website). Libreboot was fully free in the past but it's not true anymore since it does now support computers needing the ME working (at least for computer initialization) but neutered so that most of it can't operate. However, you can't be sure whether a neutered ME is harmful or not since we don't know what it can really do as the initialization source code is not known.
Using GNU Guix to build can solve the "difficult to install" issue and also help with dependency management, however compilation time can't be avoided. Advantages remain, however, thanks to package transformation options!
I do use it, as it's the default kernel of the GNU Guix distro which I use daily.
The main drawbacks is that it forces you to choose your hardware wisely, using e.g. h-node.org to be sure it's compatible. Otherwise, this is quite exactly the same kernel, just really free as in freedom.
The main difference with NixOS is that it's fully free. Another difference is that the language used for configuration in Guix is Scheme, a general purpose functional language.
Or GNU Boot? 👀
Copying is not theft: stealing a thing leaves one less left while copying makes one thing more, that's what copy is for. Example?
I if steal your bicycle, you have to take the bus. But if I just copy it, there's one for each of us.
(Thanks Nina Paley https://archive.org/details/CopyingIsNotTheft1080p 😁)
No more.
Sci-hub exists.
Also in the meantime: https://github.com/Speykious/cve-rs
I'm like this post but I use GNU Guix System instead of Gentoo and GNU Boot instead of the old fully free Libreboot (and I have my own appartment lol).
Some computers do not require having the ME firmware installed. Usually, these are computers supported by a 100% free BIOS replacement such as GNU Boot (see the compatible models on the website). Libreboot was fully free in the past but it's not true anymore since it does now support computers needing the ME working (at least for computer initialization) but neutered so that most of it can't operate. However, you can't be sure whether a neutered ME is harmful or not since we don't know what it can really do as the initialization source code is not known.
Using GNU Guix to build can solve the "difficult to install" issue and also help with dependency management, however compilation time can't be avoided. Advantages remain, however, thanks to package transformation options!
GNU Guix System!
Yeah well, it was convenient to dismiss radical free software ideas by telling everyone it's obsolete 🙄 thus calling that "traditional"
on the main CPU 🙃*
There are intermediary steps, e.g. GNU Guix System 🫣
I would say that a mathematician would rather write i²=-1 than sqrt(-1)=i
Bartók
It never proposed GNU Guix to me. Quite unfortunate, that's my daily driver and I love it.
I do use it, as it's the default kernel of the GNU Guix distro which I use daily.
The main drawbacks is that it forces you to choose your hardware wisely, using e.g. h-node.org to be sure it's compatible. Otherwise, this is quite exactly the same kernel, just really free as in freedom.
The main difference with NixOS is that it's fully free. Another difference is that the language used for configuration in Guix is Scheme, a general purpose functional language.
GNU Guix System, using GNU Shepherd as init. It does its job quite well.
I'm in my late 20s and started with ms-dos too. And even tried OS/2 to check I wasn't missing something before upgrading to 3.1 then XP 😂