On Lu, 06 aug 12, 19:39:56, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > > You've removed my argumentation: > | In most cases it will be missing non-free firmware, but it's possible > | that there is free firmware what's not on the installation media. > | E.g. because it's really new. Because IMO it was irrelevant for my point (and still do).
> And there is another point: the problem of telling about missing > non-free firmware, is that it can be interpreted as recommending > non-free firmware: Well, than let's address this problem and reword the text as to warn against non-free firmware instead of hiding the issue under the carpet on the premise that some firmware may be free. AFAICT (but I'm not an expert) the chances to have a driver in the kernel, but no firmware in the corresponding firmware-linux package is quite slim (new hardware wouldn't have a driver either). Kind rgards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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