On Mon, Jan 25, 2021, at 16:34, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 25 ian 21, 19:35:25, Thomas Lange wrote: > > Another very odd thing I found. > > > > On https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/ > > there's no hint about images including non-free firmware. No hint > > about firmware at all. And then this FAQ > > > > <quote> > > Where is the CD image with non-free? > > ..... > > Sometimes, someone is kind enough to create unofficial non-free CDs. If you > > cannot find any links on this website, you can try asking on the debian-cd > > mailing list. > > </quote> > > > > So we do not tell our users that we (the CD team I guess) already > > create these very usefull images including non-free firmware. And then > > we tell the users to search the link themselves. Not very friendly. > > As far as I recall that entry refers to CDs with the entire non-free > component of the archive, not just firmware packages (which were seldom > or even inexistent at the time the FAQ was written).
That's correct. It is not about non-free firmware, but rather the non-free distribution as a whole. That FAQ entry neither explains things well enough, nor is it very helpful. It could use an update... Heck, I am not even sure the installer could use anything in that non-free CD set to actually load non-free firmware at *install time* (as opposed to installing it to be available on the final system after a reboot) without a lot of manual intervention... -- Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org>
