On 24/02/2026 20:07, Russ Allbery wrote:
To try to make this somewhat productive, I will offer one positive suggestion: If there are people who are willing to do the work to create images designed explicitly for the free hardware movement, that are intentionally pushing the boundaries of what software support can be dropped if one is running the most free hardware available, I personally have no objection to seeing a pure blend created for that purpose. I only object to the name.
Getting productive and towards a possible implementation, seeing that some parts of the discussion are migrating to actionable steps: See my mail earlier [1]. It would be relatively easy to add another image to the list of official distributed live images. Such image could contain the same set of packages as a regular image, with the difference that non-free-firmware will not be enabled.
The alternative I'd offer is the Debian for Libre Hardware, or some variation on that. I think adding the word "hardware" avoids the ambiguity and other implications, and indicates that the purpose of the blend is to support the free (libre) hardware movement.
I can add another image to the list of images, but I would need your input: which desktop environment should be offered (I still think that we should offer initially only one DE) and how should it be named? -> 'Debian for Libre Hardware' as proposed here? How to avoid that people with hardware that requires non-free-firmware (my unfounded guesstimate: more than 90% of the downloads) download this version and then blame Debian for not being able to run on their hardware? The current text is at located at various places: [2][3][4] I can help in getting the images built, but need your (i.e. Debian's) help in writing the documentation/accompanying texts and for selecting the appropriate targets. With kind regards, Roland Clobus [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/02/msg00516.html [2] https://get.debian.org/images/release/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/ [3] https://get.debian.org/images/weekly-live-builds/amd64/iso-hybrid/ [4] https://www.debian.org/distrib/
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