On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 05:59:47AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Philipp Kern (pk...@debian.org):
PS: No, I'm not happy it's closed. But I find it riduculous if you add
another
CPU that you cannot control to load firmware, like a free mobile handset
did.
And then it's
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/
Well, I know how to solve my problem, but this doesn't help the
unexperienced user who might ditch Debian if wifi doesn't work and
install Ubuntu instead. Ubuntu supports non-free firmware during install.
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 06:41:59PM +0200, borish wrote:
Well, I know how to solve my problem, but this doesn't help the
unexperienced user who might ditch Debian if wifi doesn't work and
install Ubuntu instead. Ubuntu supports non-free firmware during
install.
I don't think Debian should
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:41 PM, borish wrote:
Well, I know how to solve my problem, but this doesn't help the
unexperienced user who might ditch Debian if wifi doesn't work and install
Ubuntu instead. Ubuntu supports non-free firmware during install.
Presumably inexperienced (but proactive)
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:49:00PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
After all if they don't learn that their wifi requires non-free software
to work, then what is the point of even having Debian promise to be all
free software?
Mostly because it's firmware; it doesn't run on the CPU. I for one
Le mardi, 21 août 2012 20.48:39, Philipp Kern a écrit :
And then it's free!!111 It's not all clear to me what a GR on
a seperate section for firmware would yield. (Especially given the fact
that users now need to activate the whole of non-free to get the firmware
they need.
Quoting Philipp Kern (pk...@debian.org):
PS: No, I'm not happy it's closed. But I find it riduculous if you add another
CPU that you cannot control to load firmware, like a free mobile handset did.
And then it's free!!111 It's not all clear to me what a GR on a seperate
section for firmware
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