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I can't give you rigth away a list of "this won't work, that will work". BUT, I am sure I can get a lot of that info for you in a matter of days. And, if you are interested in giving this a try, I can maybe provide you with a deblobed kernel. Even more, I can try calling in some other people (who know how to handle this stuff way better than me) to help! I think I would pose things differently: what do we have to gain by using 100% FLOSS? Well, from a security point of view, there are no closed-source / binary-only programs running, so if a bug or exploit arises, we can handle that ourselves. We don't have to rely on any other party to solve the issue. Think about Adobe Flash, for example. A security nightmare that only Adobe can solve. And they never did so. Good thing it's almost gone :-P From a privacy point of view (for me it's very important), we are sure what the machine is doing. No chances of a backdoor or unknown bug that activates microphone or webcam without telling me first. We can be sure that no driver or firmware is sending any sensitive information when "doing an update", or "filling a bug form". From a hacking point of view, it's much more liberating, powerful and even FUN! Not having to deal with closed source binaries we can see everything that is happening in the system, and we can change everything. We are totally free to deal with things our way. So, you see, maybe some things will need some additional work, but I believe we have more to gain than to lose.

HUm... well, you see the thing is that the "official" linux kernel, as provided and managed by Linus Torvalds actually contains blobs. There is a project to deblob linux kernel, you can read about it in http://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/ You should consider using a linux-libre version, or maybe deblob your own. Debian use their own version of linux kernel, but it's fully free (they ditched the proprietary firmware long ago). If you would like to read on that you can find this a good read too https://trisquel.info/en/forum/difference-between-linux-libre-kernel-and-debian-main-kernel I don't know about linux-sunxi, but I don't really think it's a deblobed version. Why do you need the blobs for wifi? Banana Pi for example has wifi that (i believe) has free drivers (ap6 something...?) Thanks for the info anyway :-)

Hello, My name is GNUser and as the name implies, I use GNU system For privacy and security reasons (though also some philosophical ones) I decided to run only free software on my machines. For example my laptop has Trisquel installed which is a FSF approved distro. I also use Debian a lot, with the main repository only available (other repositories might contain or suggest non-free software). My question is this: the images of armbian available here, I understand they are built on top of debian, but which kernel are they using? The kernel that Debian usually provides (for x86/64) is a debblobed kernel, with no proprietary pieces. Is that the case with these images? Also, in terms of drivers, firmware and repositories, do these include any non-free stuff? I understand a lot of people probably don't care about free vs open source, and I am fine with that. I believe we can work together anyway, and I am jsut asking so I know which pieces of software I would have to replace (if possible at all). Thanks!

Hi. So, does that means that the Legacy version download is a complete image (with some kind of GUI and all necessary drivers)? Btw, I noticed in the Vanilla Desktop box it says it has the free HW acceleration when available. Does it refer to Cedrus/VDPAU driver? Thanks.