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[–] 14 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Yeah, it's like an open-source distro that won't work without an accompanying opaque binary blob.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    What distros are like this?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    It is more a question of what hardware is like that and if you look up firmware blobs for Linux you'll find a lot, starting with graphic cards.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    That's the hardware not the distro

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Distro was the wrong word. I should have said "package" (though there are also distros that attempt to eliminate blobs within their packages). Examples include manufacturer-issued device drivers, software that allows integration of GPUs, several parts of Android that integrate with the underlying hardware, firmware of various sorts, and I can't be arsed to remember more at the moment.

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