I’m thinking about using suse slowroll but I’m concerned about SUSE’s wishy washy policy on free software. Are there any programs that aren’t free software in the OSS repo?
What “wishy-washy” policy are you on about?
The fact that they keep saying “open source” instead of free software. Also they seem to just assume that you will want to use non-free software out if the box.
Then yes, there are all kinds of things in the repositories that are going to annoy you.
Thanks for the answer
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- Free software holds a much bigger meaning than open source. Open source is a term that basicly means free labor
You can read about the difference here https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html
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That’s the reason for my post. I think my question was already answered
Just like with debian you can remove the non-oss repos on your system. You can see what it provides here: https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss/x86_64/ .
That said, everything in the oss repo is opensource and GPL compatible.
But do they ship things like WiFi firmware and media codexes?
