What I always thought what would be nice:
Having 2 versions of Tails. One pure and free, and one with proprietary
code that is needed to run some hardware.
If one has a wifi adapter that runs on free software, most if not all of
the proprietary code that is included in Tails is of no use for that
person, at least that's how I understand it. Such an wifi adapter can be
be bought for the cost of an USB stick.
On 6/14/21 10:01 AM, boyska wrote:
Georg Koppen:
anonym:
Romper Stomper via Tails-dev:
and why are there closed codes in “tails”?
I guess you are referring to the firmwares required for hardware
support? If we didn't ship these firmwares Tails would not run on most
hardware. It's a necessary trade-off.
Is there a list of those firmwares somewhere (I couldn't find anything
on the Tails website about that topic after searching a bit) or is it
"just" a Debian package taken 1:1 from upstream?
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/blob/stable/config/chroot_local-packageslists/tails-common.list#L247
this is the list of debian packages Tails installs to have firmwares
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