On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 08:13:36AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > debian is about to exclude all "non-free" material from their > distributions. this includes firmware, documentation et al.
If you're referring to the recent vote, the point was to make sure the debian system didn't *require* non-free software to function. They're still keeping 'non-free' and 'contib' around. They say that these two areas are 'no longer part of the distribution', but they'll still support them as part of the archive and via their bug-tracking system. So, in order to get the firmware, you'll probably just have to do something like 'apt-get install alsa-nonfree'. Cheers, - Mike
