What free operating systems are available?

Posted May 29, 2011 10:35 UTC (Sun) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
In reply to: What free operating systems are available? by pabs
Parent article: HTC: no more locked-down phones

Those are great projects, but I'm looking for complete systems that I could install, which are 100% free software.

Debian for smartphones would be great (if all the binary blobs are removed from Debian's Linux). I hope the project gathers momentum.

SHR seems to have lots of hardware support, but I can't find anything on their site to say if they use binary blobs or proprietary software (drivers etc.).

What free operating systems are available?

Posted May 31, 2011 1:41 UTC (Tue) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Software is never complete, so don't hold your breath there :)

Yes, all the binary blobs in Linux (and the FreeBSD kernel) were removed from Debian main for the release of Debian squeeze. If you find any in a later release, please file a bug.

SHR spawned out of the OpenMoko community and is OpenEmbedded based so I assume they won't be using non-free drivers. I'll try to get them to respond here about it though.