Qubes 3.1 on Thinkpad E460

[Shakthi Kannan]

Hi,

I have installed Qubes 3.1 on a Lenovo E460 with VT-d enabled in the
BIOS. Also, booting with "Legacy only" and "Secure boot" disabled.

(I initially tried with 3.2, but, after loading initrd.img, the boot
messages proceeded until "Dom0 has 2 CPUS" and the installer failed to
start.)

Couple of questions:

1. I would like to know if there are any proprietary binary blobs in
Qubes OS. If yes, how can they be replaced? I came across this thread:

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/qubes-devel/w2ssPzYemQ8

Is dom0 completely free? I do not have linux-firmware installed and
mostly use ethernet or USB-wireless. Suspend/resume work fine.

2. I see Puri.sm shipping Qubes OS. How is it different from the 3.1
or 3.2 release? Please let me know.

I shall submit the HCL report soon.

Thanks!

SK

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Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com

[Andrew David Wong]

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On 2016-10-08 01:14, Shakthi Kannan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed Qubes 3.1 on a Lenovo E460 with VT-d enabled in the
> BIOS. Also, booting with "Legacy only" and "Secure boot" disabled.
>
> (I initially tried with 3.2, but, after loading initrd.img, the boot
> messages proceeded until "Dom0 has 2 CPUS" and the installer failed to
> start.)
>
> Couple of questions:
>
> 1. I would like to know if there are any proprietary binary blobs in
> Qubes OS. If yes, how can they be replaced? I came across this thread:
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/qubes-devel/w2ssPzYemQ8
>
> Is dom0 completely free? I do not have linux-firmware installed and
> mostly use ethernet or USB-wireless. Suspend/resume work fine.
>

AFAIK, dom0 is *not* completely free of proprietary binary blobs.
I don't know how (or even whether) they can be replaced, but someone
else here probably does.

> 2. I see Puri.sm shipping Qubes OS. How is it different from the 3.1
> or 3.2 release? Please let me know.
>

It should be either Qubes 3.1 or Qubes 3.2, not something different.
You may have to ask Purism which version they're shipping if they
don't specify the version.

> I shall submit the HCL report soon.
>
> Thanks!
>
> SK
>

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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