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David Revoy (davidrevoy@framapiaf.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 02:42:53 JST 
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 02:37:24 JST 
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@theorytoe Don't do that. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 00:29:44 JST
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@SuperDicq @bronze @Baa @kumicota Unmaintained, but you could use an old version. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 00:23:51 JST
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@SuperDicq @bronze @Baa @kumicota Hurd was also a supported kernel in the past, same with BSD kernel's.
The April fools joke was a release of the latest version. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 00:19:01 JST
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@bronze @kumicota @SuperDicq @Baa *Gentoo GNU
Gentoo by default comes without Linux - you need to choose what kernel to install and that can be Hurd. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 00:19:04 JST
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@SuperDicq @Baa @kumicota Aarch64 often is a different CPU arch between SoC's - there are so many different versions and variants that everything needs to compiled per SoC.
Aarch64 SoC's are also all completely different - specific .dtb's etc are needed.
Those are the reasons why there are no generic GNU/Linux distros that work across Aarch64 SoC's. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Aug-2026 23:05:57 JST
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@SuperDicq How do you do that? -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Aug-2026 22:37:05 JST
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@SuperDicq @davidrevoy I downloaded a copy of the binary of GNU Linux-libre, including almost all of the free drivers, from; https://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/rpmfreedom/7.1/RPMS/x86_64/
That is; 145MiB core elf and modules (606MiB extracted (still compressed)) + 2.0 MiB headers (9.1MiB extracted (still compressed)) + 316KiB free peripheral software needed for some drivers, which equals; ~615MiB.
Adding the ~1MiB of proprietary software disguised as arrays of numbers in linux.git to that, that works out to a linux.git size of ~616 MiB (what a coincidence).
But that number doesn't include the proprietary software components of many drivers, as proprietary peripheral software, which is stored in "linux-firmware.git; https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/firmware/linux-firmware-20260622.tar.xz
That is ~1.8104GiB, minus ~316KiB of free peripheral software included, working out to; ~1.8101GiB.
There is quite a bit of duplication, due to a binaries that is slightly different, being a whole separate file on disk - but each file has corresponding source code, which isn't provided.
So that works out to Linux being; ~2.4116GiB in total for the binaries.
That works out to <25% of Linux being free software, while >75% of Linux being proprietary software. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Aug-2026 22:17:45 JST
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@SuperDicq @davidrevoy The proprietary software still denies you the 4 freedoms, even if you never execute it. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Aug-2026 22:11:56 JST
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@SuperDicq @davidrevoy Sorry to break it to you, but in excess of 75% of Linux is proprietary software and <25% of Linux is source-available - only GNU Linux-libre makes it free software.
The developers are doing their best to make Linux proprietary slopware too, so that <25% that is free software seems to be set to shrink. -
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David Revoy (davidrevoy@framapiaf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Aug-2026 05:09:33 JST
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@hbons/117099208164126991
Disgusting. Pausing my volunteer tablet driver contributions and any future Linux-related work until The Linux Foundation grows a bit of ethics. If they don’t change, I’ll look elsewhere.
➡️ Edit: Thanks to all your comments and feedback, I now see I'm reacting against The Linux Foundation’s misbehavior, not the open-source Linux community and ecosystem itself. They’re separate entities; I needed that reminder. My frustration is with that corp, not the code. I'll reconsider my pause.
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 17-Aug-2026 02:30:35 JST
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@Velveteen Extreme Teto Advance. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 17-Aug-2026 02:27:34 JST
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Have to remake the image huh?
Far too much gif artifacts. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 17-Aug-2026 02:21:45 JST
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>Run pngcrush -brute 0 on unreasonably sized png.
>Saves only 18074 bytes. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 17-Aug-2026 02:17:50 JST
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 17-Aug-2026 02:08:22 JST
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@selea Debian is going to become free software again, so I can wish it a happy birthday right? -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 17-Aug-2026 02:03:36 JST
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@fwc @Cocoa Too spicy images being posted? -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 17-Aug-2026 02:02:25 JST
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@Fullmetal2255 Brutal. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 17-Aug-2026 01:59:10 JST
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@tina @nyquildotorg Alpine is a GNU/Linux distro.
The claim that Alpine does not use GNU coreutils is false - Alpine is designed to use GNU coreutils, except there is a cut down installer without coreutils just to be edgy (the user goes and installs coreutils later).
All of such false claims are dependent on the user thinking it's; "all Linux" and not actually looking at it and realizing it's GNU/Linux.
https://www.alpinelinux.org/downloads/
>GnuPG signatures right there on the installation page.
Looks pretty GNU to me, but lets keep going.
>"Just enough to get you started. Network connection is required."
It's clear that the standard install image is just enough to get you started for the install of any of the missing GNU packages.
7z l alpine-standard-3.23.0-x86_64.iso
boot/grub
boot/grub/efi.img
There's the GNU GRUB OS - it's clearly GNU/Linux, but lets keep going.
cd apks/x86_64
ls gnutls-3.8.11-r0.apk libunistring-1.4.1-r0.apk ncurses-terminfo-base-6.5_p20251123-r0.apk wget-1.25.0-r2.apk gmp-6.3.0-r4.apk libncursesw-6.5_p20251123-r0.apk libidn2-2.3.8-r0.apk
That's a lot of GNU packages for something not GNU and that's ignoring the GNU dependencies for all the other packages.
But there's an "Extended" install image as well; "Most common used packages included. Suitable for routers and servers." - which seems to in fact be what you would use if you don't want pretty much nothing to be included, just to be edgy.
cd apks/x86_64
Just in one pass I found;
ls coreutils-9.8-r1.apk coreutils-env-9.8-r1.apk coreutils-fmt-9.8-r1.apk coreutils-sha512sum-9.8-r1.apk gdbm-1.26-r0.apk gmp-6.3.0-r4.apk gnutls-3.8.11-r0.apk grub-2.12-r8.apk grub-bios-2.12-r8.apk grub-efi-2.12-r8.apk libgcc-15.2.0-r2.apk libidn2-2.3.8-r0.apk libncursesw-6.5_p20251123-r0.apk ncurses-terminfo-6.5_p20251123-r0.apk ncurses-terminfo-base-6.5_p20251123-r0.apk parted-3.6-r2.apk readline-8.3.1-r0.apk tar-1.35-r4.apk wget-1.25.0-r2.apk
Yes, that's right, Alpine GNU/Linux ships GNU coreutils, GNU grub, GNU ncurses, GMP, libgcc, GNU libidn2, GNU parted, GNU readline, GNU tar and GNU wget by default!
All the other packages look very similar to what comes with the default install of a typical GNU/Linux, a lot of proprietary software is included too.
(There's even Quagga there, which is an interesting choice and well that is still GNU code, as it was forked from GNU zebra).
Therefore Alpine is a GNU/Linux distro (with the only large change seemingly being musl instead of glibc - while GNU coreutils is used and even the GNU GRUB OS is used), although there is a barebones BusyBox/Linux installer just to be edgy (but of course still has GNU in it). -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 17-Aug-2026 01:52:51 JST
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@Butterchalk Gooner not getting his goon image, due to using discord?
How could this have been predicted?
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