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Anyone knows PureOS ?

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Subject: Anyone knows PureOS ?
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by: Anonymous - Fri, 30 Jul 2021 14:44 UTC

https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html

Supposedly like Debian, but without the unfree stuff and the firmware blobs. Sounds good to me, just wonder if it will work on your average hardware ?
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by: Marc SCHAEFER - Fri, 30 Jul 2021 14:48 UTC

Anonymous <Anonymous@news.novabbs.org> wrote:
> Supposedly like Debian, but without the unfree stuff and the firmware
> blobs. Sounds good to me, just wonder if it will work on your average
> hardware ?

How is that different from not putting non-free in your
/etc/apt/sources.list ?

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by: Anonymous - Fri, 30 Jul 2021 15:15 UTC

>How is that different from not putting non-free in your
/etc/apt/sources.list ?

It is probably not. :-)
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by: Anonymous - Sat, 31 Jul 2021 10:12 UTC

Anonymous wrote:

>>> Supposedly like Debian, but without the unfree stuff and the firmware blobs. Sounds good to me, just wonder if it will work on your average hardware ?

Since it's based on Debian I assume it should work on most of what Debian works on.

>>How is that different from not putting non-free in your
> /etc/apt/sources.list ?

> It is probably not. :-)

Debian makes it pretty easy to not use non-free stuff, as mentioned above. Just remove non-free from your sources file.
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Subject	Author
Anyone knows PureOS ?	Anonymous
Re: Anyone knows PureOS ?	Marc SCHAEFER
Re: Anyone knows PureOS ?	Anonymous
Re: Anyone knows PureOS ?	Anonymous