Re: Leaving the guix project

[ng0]

On 17-02-20 14:25:51, John Darrington wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 09:59:05AM +0100, Tomas Cech wrote:
> 
>      Running GuixSD on HW not fully supported by linux-libre is painful for
>      me as well. I remember my first time success with GuixSD - after some
>      coffee and sweating I managed to deploy and boot GuixSD on my notebook
>      which had WiFi card requiring firmware to run. I wasn't able to fix
>      missing package without reboot.
>      
>      It took me some time to get with my own kernel (vanilla
>      based) and initrd on top of Guix (especially as Guile is still
>      language barrier for me).
>      
>      I'd love to see some coordinated effort outside of (or better on top of)
>      Guix to share such work.
> 
> IMO a better way to spend your effort would be:-
> 
> 1. Writing free drivers for the devices which are not in linux-libre and 
> submitting
> them a patch; OR

I wonder if either linux or linux-libre have a list of devices which can
absolutely NOT be written free drivers for for whatever of the multiple
reasons companies can come up with to go legal against reverse engineering.

Resources are, well useful to have.

> 2. Helping the development of low cost hardware which on which fully free 
> software
> can run; OR
> 
> 3. Undertake extra paid employment in some activity (not necessarily computer 
> related)
> which benefits the community, and spend the mony you earn to purchase harware 
> on which
> GuixSD runs better.
>      
> 
> J'
> 
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