On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 10:42:49AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: [cut]
> > But Debian does allow the installation of nonfree drivers. And, if I > recall correctly last time I installed (a long, long time ago), it did > ask the question. > > We want the reputation of rejecting monolithic blocks of horrible code > when that is practical, and in the case of systemd, we want to show > that it is practical, and even beneficial. > > We don't want to give the impression that without systemd, video card > performance is the pits. > This is the standard policy in Debian, AFAIK: https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware#Firmware_during_the_installation The debian installer does *not* provide non-free firmware but allows the user to provide it in a separete medium (e.g.,a USB stick) and the installer will ask during installation if the user wants to use that firmware. There is a *separate* netinst CD which includes non-free firmware for network adapters, and no more. It is made available, but it is *not* the default netinst, and marked as *unofficial*. I honestly don't mind about a journalist complaining about the fact that Devuan does not supply third-party non-free drivers for his video card, because a substantial majority of the distributions, including also Debian, do the same (i.e., they do *not* provide non-free drivers upon installation). HND KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
