Linux is the distro of choice for freedom loving software hippies, but there’s a dirty little secret buried within the kernel: not everything you see is open source! The Linux kernel contains binary blobs, proprietary code that makes certain hardware run. Many laptops have Wi-Fi or graphics cards that don’t run without the manufacturer-supplied firmware. This doesn’t bother many Linux users. If manufacturers don’t want to share their code but want to contribute to Linux, let them! But, on the other hand, this is closed source code, and that means users can’t verify what’s going on inside. This is partly why...
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