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extreme cleanup / grandiose gesture make canoeboot a truly GNU FSDG compliant coreboot distro, by removing all overly positive reference to Libreboot; what remains is technical in nature, so as to provide historical context since Canoeboot is a fork of Libreboot. I've stated before that I wish to take a more neutral tone toward the FSF, in contrast to the *coldboot war* of 2023 when GNU Boot started. Canoeboot was heavily linking to Libreboot, even going so far as to call itself "inferior" and tell the reader to use Libreboot. From now on, Canoeboot will be maintained as though I actually believed in FSF propoganda. I don't, but its users do. Treat them with respect. My reason for providing Canoeboot is precisely that I wish for such people to have a high quality coreboot distro, much unlike the inferior *GNU Boot* project; inferior because to this day, it's still based on very old Libreboot, with not much changed (of any real substance) relative to the Libreboot 20220710 release on which it forked. In general, I've also found a lot of stragglers from when Canoeboot started, where paragraphs referred to Libreboot that should have actually referred to Canoeboot, or paragraphs with Libreboot-specific information that does not make sense in the Canoeboot project e.g. references to vendor scripts. The resulting canoeboot.org will now look no different to any typical reader than a typical FSF-aligned project. There is a next stage to this, which will become apparent to everyone if I have my way. Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <info@minifree.org>
2024-05-10 02:12:44 +00:00
Leah Rowe, that's who. Leah single-handedly maintains Canoeboot, re-basing
upon newer releases of Libreboot every now and then. Leah Rowe is the founder
and lead developer for *both* projects; Leah maintains both
Canoeboot *and* Libreboot.
extreme cleanup / grandiose gesture make canoeboot a truly GNU FSDG compliant coreboot distro, by removing all overly positive reference to Libreboot; what remains is technical in nature, so as to provide historical context since Canoeboot is a fork of Libreboot. I've stated before that I wish to take a more neutral tone toward the FSF, in contrast to the *coldboot war* of 2023 when GNU Boot started. Canoeboot was heavily linking to Libreboot, even going so far as to call itself "inferior" and tell the reader to use Libreboot. From now on, Canoeboot will be maintained as though I actually believed in FSF propoganda. I don't, but its users do. Treat them with respect. My reason for providing Canoeboot is precisely that I wish for such people to have a high quality coreboot distro, much unlike the inferior *GNU Boot* project; inferior because to this day, it's still based on very old Libreboot, with not much changed (of any real substance) relative to the Libreboot 20220710 release on which it forked. In general, I've also found a lot of stragglers from when Canoeboot started, where paragraphs referred to Libreboot that should have actually referred to Canoeboot, or paragraphs with Libreboot-specific information that does not make sense in the Canoeboot project e.g. references to vendor scripts. The resulting canoeboot.org will now look no different to any typical reader than a typical FSF-aligned project. There is a next stage to this, which will become apparent to everyone if I have my way. Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <info@minifree.org>
2024-05-10 02:12:44 +00:00
If you have a patch, or beef, talk to Leah.