What laptop do you use/recommend? (lemmy.org)

submitted 6 months ago by God@lemmy.org to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Looking to upgrade from an old Latitude, curious as to what mobile hardware you folks use for writing your open source projects?

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 6 months ago

Where do you place XEN - which is fully GPLv2?

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

I'm not familiar with it at all so can't tell. It seems to be a virtualization system?

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 6 months ago

I'm rather annoyed your acting as a purity commissar in a hardware recommendation thread and you didn't bother to familiarize yourself with the thing your nay-saying. If your going to drop a its not FOSS purity bomb - you should know why!

Xen is a GPLv2 microkernel, https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Xen

Qubes runs on Xen, and you can run whatever operating system you like inside of Qubes VMs.

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

I'm not a purity commissar and I actually don't agree with the "proprietary software should be impossible to install" thing of FSF. I meant that what runs on the stock Linux kernel may not run on libre kernel and it can't be a benchmark of FOSS support. Also I'm not talking about VMs

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 6 months ago

Qubes is a framework around XEN, the microkernel to share and isolate hardware resouces amongst VMs. Inside of those VMs you can run whatever operating system/kernel you like.

Qubes is about as FOSS as you can practically get.