Subject: Re: bug#48023: download.html has better instructions for non-free systems

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:42:16 -0400

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  > I suggest we add instructions for free operating systems as well.

In principle, I agree.  And if we handle only five distros of GNU/Linux,
it won't be too much work.

But there is a wrinkle to deal with.

  > - Debian/Ubuntu
  > - Fedora/RedHat
  > - Arch Linux
  > - OpenSUSE
  > - GNU Guix

Of all those, the only one that is a free distro is GNU Guix.
The others are nonfree distros that we don't want to promote.

We could describe Trisquel, and say that the nonfree distros Debian
and Ubuntu are similar.

We could describe Parabola and Hyperbola, and say that Arch GNU/Linux
is similar.

Are there free distros (see https://gnu.org/distros/) that are
lile Fedora and OpenSUSE?

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