bzImageJun 24, 2023

Moving away from RHEL based distros, whats good ?

https://lemmy.ml/post/1492784

Moving away from RHEL based distros, whats good ? - Lemmy

Hi, mostly i use REHL based distros like Centos/Rocky/Oracle for the solutions i develop but it seems its time to leave… What good server/minimal distro you use ? Will start to test Debian stable.

Show threadTabb5Jun 25, 2023
Debian stable, but Alpine and Guix are also worth considering.
GNU Guix transactional package manager and distribution — GNU Guix

Guix is a distribution of the GNU operating system. Guix is technology that respects the freedom of computer users. You are free to run the system for any purpose, study how it works, improve it, and share it with the whole world.

Show threadManbartJun 25, 2023
How has hardware compatibility been for you with Guix? It seems compelling g to me but my understanding is that it strictly avoids non-free blobs
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My answer was “Debian stable”; I haven’t used Guix yet; sorry if that was unclear.

But I appreciate Guix’s strict open source policy and it is still possible to get non-free firmware if necessary—see guix-nonfree.

GitHub - guix-users/guix-nonfree: Unofficial collection of packages that are not going to be accepted in to guix

Unofficial collection of packages that are not going to be accepted in to guix - guix-users/guix-nonfree

GitHub
Jun 26, 2023 at 6:23amWeb
Show threadTabb5Jun 26, 2023

Guix’s strict open source policy

That should be: Guix’s FSDG free/libre policy

Free System Distribution Guidelines (GNU FSDG) - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation