GNUinOS - Libre

aitor · 2024-06-15 13:32:36

I made a payment a few days ago but the process hung. I supposed that it was a glitch in the client area, so I did phone my provider and they told me that they would send me an invoice via email. The fact is that I never received that invoice; nevertheless, my website continued working on following days. This is why I supposed that the payment process did succeed. I'll have to ask my provider again on monday. Thanks for the information, prospero!

The good news is that today I got a tiny version of vdev working for the devuan installer. The challange is to build a vdev-udeb mini-package focused to d-i.

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prospero · 2024-06-16 22:03:42

I believe the iso images needed some time off, so they decided to take brief offline holidays.

Anyway, I had already downloaded the latest (2024.06.01) iso the other week, so I can confirm that the XFCE-runit amd64 image rocks, as usual.

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prospero · 2024-11-03 03:23:07

Does the gnuinos flavor of debian-installer load any non-free firmware? If so, that would probably be a bug to fix.

It has been reported that (some versions of) this script may be broken, leading to non-free firmware being loaded and installed no matter what the user chooses:

https://sources.debian.org/src/hw-detec … e.sh/#L361

paculino · 2024-12-17 18:24:44

The release files appear to be expired/invalid in the apt repo http://packages.gnuinos.org since the site went down.

prospero · 2024-12-18 09:57:20

That was a small glitch from some time ago, the repo currently works fine for me.

aitor · 2024-12-19 23:25:02

prospero wrote:

Does the gnuinos flavor of debian-installer load any non-free firmware? If so, that would probably be a bug to fix.
It has been reported that (some versions of) this script may be broken, leading to non-free firmware being loaded and installed no matter what the user chooses:
https://sources.debian.org/src/hw-detec … e.sh/#L361

Hi prospero, the gnuinos flavor of debian-installer doesn't load any non-free firmware. But thanks anyway for the link to the check-missing-firmware.sh

aitor · 2024-12-19 23:30:30

Btw, I'm updating the iso images with the last version of vdev that speeds up the boot process:

https://www.gnuinos.org/mirror/daedalus/runit/

Last edited by aitor (2024-12-19 23:37:20)

aitor · 2024-12-19 23:34:23

The kernel has been updated as well.

prospero · 2024-12-20 17:39:01

aitor wrote:

the gnuinos flavor of debian-installer doesn't load any non-free firmware

Thanks for confirming. I thought the linux-libre kernel would most probably not load any of that anyway, but after the Debian policy change these matters have become a source of confusion.

And thank you for the new images.

aitor · 2024-12-29 14:02:51

prospero wrote:

Thanks for confirming. I thought the linux-libre kernel would most probably not load any of that anyway, but after the Debian policy change these matters have become a source of confusion.

You can verify this by the following way (you need to install check-dfsg-status):

# check-dfsg-status -s
No non-free or contrib packages installed on gnuinos!  You have completed the first step to enlightenment.

Bear in mind that the forced use of packages.gnuinos.org in APT's sources.list during the installation makes sure not installing non-free firmware just because sections like contrib, non-free or non-free-firmware don't exist in this archive (only main, main/debian-installer...). As a result, the bad behaviour of hw-detect has no harmful side effects in the gnuinos-installer.

aitor · 2024-12-30 15:49:50

I've modified hw-detect though (not tested yet):

http://packages.gnuinos.org/gnuinos/poo … /hw-detect

prospero · Yesterday 20:49:51

aitor wrote:

# check-dfsg-status -s

Thank you very much for that hint. I am using -q instead, and enjoying the silence.

Indeed the non-free firmware is still kept in a separate Debian repo, even after the policy change, so whether the Debian installer now installs it by default is of no immediate concern to gnuinos users. Thank you for looking into hw-detect, and thank you again for your work on gnuinos, I really appreciate being able to tinker on a rather lightweight OS in all freedoms, init included.

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