On Fri, 30 Jul 2021 21:05:18 +0900 Olaf Meeuwissen <paddy-h...@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> Hi Tito, list, > > tito via Dng writes: > > > On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 17:16:31 +0000 > > g4sra via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: > > > > [...snip...] > >> > >> > What am I missing? > >> > >> All the 'other' Drivers that people are complaining are NOT in the > >> netinstall ISO's. > >> I don't understand the point you are making in adding up the Drivers that > >> *are* included. > > > > Hi, > > I'm just saying that I wonder why being not that big in size they were not > > included > > and in fact as you confirm they are included. > > The ones you list here are all firmware blob packages so now the question > > arises > > which are the DRIVER packages that should have been included and are not? > > By inspecting the repos (not the isos) with the synaptic package manager > > I was not able to spot the GBs of packages you mentioned, > > probably this is my fault and I just look in the wrong places. > > For one thing, you are forgetting all the third-party drivers that > aren't in the Debian package repositories to begin with. Hi, I don't think devuan or debian will ever ship them as they will never be packaged so they don't count. If I understood it correctly the problem is about adding the drivers and firmware blobs which are in the non-free repos to the isos and install images and in my opinion for a given arch (i386, am64, etc) they do not sum up to GBs of software and could easily be added to to the bigger images/isos for a best possible user experience (at least for video cards, ethernet cards and wifi cards/dongles). By not doing it potential users are driven away from devuan (and linux) at the beginning of they new linux life of freedom and consciousness. Ciao, Tito > I bought a USB WiFi dongle that (quietly) advertised Linux support and > needed to add the vendor package repository for its out-of-tree driver. > Had to fiddle a little bit to work around Debian<->Devuan issues but it > compiles and works fine otherwise. > > IIRC, there is even a GitHub repository for the sources but I haven't > checked if it contains any blobs. > > The dongle's at the office and I don't remember the vendor/device name. > Sorry. > > Hope this helps, > -- > Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 > GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 > Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate > Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng