If we run QubesOS on POWER9 or future PowerISA 3.1 hardware, no non- free blobs will be needed. I do not trust Intel and AMD anyway, so I plan to migrate away from Radeon to a future freedom respecting GPU.
On Fri, 2023-10-27 at 23:41 +0000, Skyler wrote: > Hello, > > Would you be able to accept pull requests which add packages to > integrate Guix with QubesOS as a guest? I ask because QubesOS does > not (and does not intend to) comply with the Free System Distribution > Guidelines, the primary problem being that their dom0 includes binary > blobs. Guix maintains the FSDG standard, which is a good thing. But > part of the FSDG says that the distribution cannot "steer users > towards obtaining any nonfree information for practical use, or > encourage them to do so". I could see a reasonable argument that > providing compatibility with a non-free system steers users in that > direction, but it seems like a grey area. > > Projecting further into the future, I would expect that packaging all > of QubesOS infrastructure in Guix, so that Guix could run as dom0 > with Guix guests, would be fine, because then users would not need to > install any non-free software in order to use these features (the > code developed specifically for QubesOS is free software, mostly > GPL2+ from what I've seen). > > Any feedback is appreciated. > > Thanks, > Skyler
