As this post might attract Guix users, what's the current state for using hardware?
When I tried it a few years ago I ran into a stance on firmware which amounted to it refusing to run unless you used some other Linux branch which was strongly discouraged on somewhat unclear grounds. I think the idea was that closed-source-firmware shalt not be used, and if you absolutely must, there's something over there that you aren't allowed to talk about.
Is that approach still the dominant one today? I'd like a scheme userspace but I'm not dealing with having to use unofficial linux forks to have a wifi card work.
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but it's hard to determine from the outside whether this is a pragmatic obstacle or not.
When I tried it a few years ago I ran into a stance on firmware which amounted to it refusing to run unless you used some other Linux branch which was strongly discouraged on somewhat unclear grounds. I think the idea was that closed-source-firmware shalt not be used, and if you absolutely must, there's something over there that you aren't allowed to talk about.
Is that approach still the dominant one today? I'd like a scheme userspace but I'm not dealing with having to use unofficial linux forks to have a wifi card work.
I see https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix offers:
but it's hard to determine from the outside whether this is a pragmatic obstacle or not.