Group: Hardware/Software/FSDG distributions

Introduction

Having all the hardware of a given computer being able to work with only free software is not enough as you also need to be able to run an FSDG compliant distribution on that computer.

This article is meant to summarize the hardware requirement of FSDG compliant distributions.

General purpose GNU/Linux distributions

General information

Distribution	Audience	Release type
GuixSD	Technical users with good command line knowledge (or willing to learn it)	?
Hyperbola	Technical users with good command line knowledge (or willing to learn it)	Stable releases
Parabola	Technical users with good command line knowledge (or willing to learn it)	Rolling releases
PureOS	Everybody	Rolling release
Trisquel 8	Everybody	Stable releases

Architectures support

Distribution or software	x86 32bit support	x86 64bit support	ARM 32bit support	ARM 64bit support	PowerPC 64bit little endian support
GuixSD	i686	Yes	armhf	Yes	?
Hyperbola	i686	Yes	No	No	No
Parabola	i686	Yes	armv7h	No	Unfinished/WIP?
PureOS	No	Yes	No	No	No
Trisquel	i686	Yes	No	No	No

Adding support for a device

ARM devices

For ARM devices, you typically need to add a package for a free software bootloader that supports the device, and make sure that upstream Linux has enough hardware support to make the device useful.

Small GNU/Linux distributions

Distribution or software	Audience	Release type	Adding support for a device
libreCMC
ProteanOS
Replicant			You need to add a vendor/device/the-vendor/the-device repository with the hardware configuration

Architectures support

Distribution or software	x86 32bit support	x86 64bit support	ARM 32bit support	ARM 64bit support	MIPS support
libreCMC	?	?	?	?	Yes
ProteanOS	?	?	?	?	?
Replicant	No	No	Yes	No	No

TODO

• Point to https://wiki.parabola.nu/Rolling_vs._LTS