Compiling QubesOS without binary blobs?

[matthewmajf]

I have a ThinkPad L390. When downloading the ISO image for flashing to a USB drive, I read the FAQ, and read that QubesOS is packaged with proprietary binary blobs, in order to work.

What necessarily are these binary blobs? Do they apply to my ThinkPad? If not, how can I build QubesOS from source without the binary blobs? Are there open-source replacements for those binary blobs, or am I limited to not using any x86 hardware if I want security without unknown binary blobs?

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It’s tiring going over the same arguments over and over again, and I can only suppose at this stage that you are trolling. Here we are talking about microcode and firmware: Qubes includes both. If there were free packages available Qubes would include them by preference. Your argument is flawed because the first premise is faulty. There is no evidence that including non-free microcode is a privacy and security risk per se. There is ample evidence that not including non-free microcode is …

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