On 07/12/14 19:59, Brad Smith wrote: > On 12/07/14 03:35, Riley Baird wrote: >> As for why I want to create the distro, I think that OpenBSD has >> excellent security, and I would like to create a version without the >> binary-only microcode included. > > Doesn't really make any sense why. But either way hopefully you're > not using common hardware like AMD GPUs or Intel Wifi otherwise that > is pretty crippling.
I'd personally rather choose to activate a device that required binary-only firmware after realising that it doesn't work, because at least then I know what I'm getting myself into. I had Intel Wifi for a period of time on Debian, and I had to install the package for it myself. I'd always felt uneasy about it, and now whenever I buy wireless hardware for Linux, I ensure that I'll buy one that will work with the open ath9k. That being said, this should be less of a problem with OpenBSD, since a large portion of its use is in server applications, when you should really be using ethernet anyway.
