<html><head></head><body>Thanks for your response. It wasn't clear to me if those operating systems would install any kind of firmware automatically. I want to try openbsd, maybe recompiling the kernel if I can.<br><br>Cheers<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Il 16 febbraio 2019 07:29:20 CET, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> ha scritto:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On 2/16/19, dns1983@riseup.net <dns1983@riseup.net> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> As far as I know, those distributions include non free firmwares, which,<br> potentially or maybe not, could contain some backdoors.<br><br> I don't want to preach no one, but for me is a ethical, moral question. I<br> want to avoid operating systems that haven't a clear policy about free<br> software. It is my opinion that I am not the only one here, and that this<br> explains the "Debian monoculture".<br><br> Maybe I'm wrong.<br><br> I would be happy to use a BSD operating system, only if I was sure that<br> It's entirely free.<br></blockquote><br>The BSD's tend to separate their "'base' install" as a mostly now<br>[and still ultimately moving towards entirely] free copyright base, from<br>their addon "ports" and "packages" which you must manually install<br>which can then contain blobs.<br><br>Some of the Linux distros installers just try to detect all<br>what you have and install all the blobs automagically.<br>Some of the Linux distros are pretty good about not<br>using blobs like that. Linux distros don't really have a<br>concept of a "base". And generally don't care as much.<br><br><a href="https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html">https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html</a><br><br>They are perhaps the most blob and copyright strict yet<br>still reasonably commonly used OS, and free as in<br>permissive freedom (not restrictive GPL), of anyone.<br>The BSD's are like that. See also...<br><a href="https://www.freebsd.org/">https://www.freebsd.org/</a><br><a href="https://www.netbsd.org/">https://www.netbsd.org/</a><br><a href="https://www.dragonflybsd.org/">https://www.dragonflybsd.org/</a><br><br>(Funny almost all OS offer microcode updates,<br>another currently completely untrustworthy blob.)<br><br>However you the user must ultimately analyse the<br>choices, and purchases, including hardware, and<br>the advocacy, suitable for you.<br><br>If closed firmware bothers you, don't buy closed<br>hardware that requires it, let the market sort it out.<br>Or start your own to speed up the market.<hr>tor-relays mailing list<br>tor-relays@lists.torproject.org<br><a href="https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Inviato dal mio dispositivo Android con K-9 Mail. Perdonate la brevità .</body></html>