Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 04:13:15PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: >On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:30:36 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Yes. We have parallel versions of the netinst images that include >> firmware packages. > >That's a great start. However, Patrick is advocating images that >autodetect and

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-22 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:30:36 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 04:25:34PM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > >Hi! > > > >Am 22.07.2010 09:21, schrieb Josselin Mouette: > > > >>> I think with our next release, we will have got less users. Why? > >>> We stripped out all bi

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 04:25:34PM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: >Hi! > >Am 22.07.2010 09:21, schrieb Josselin Mouette: > >>> I think with our next release, we will have got less users. Why? >>> We stripped out all binary only firmware images from Linux and put them >>> mostly into the no

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-22 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 22.07.2010 09:21, schrieb Josselin Mouette: >> I think with our next release, we will have got less users. Why? >> We stripped out all binary only firmware images from Linux and put them >> mostly into the non-free linux-firmware image. > If you think this is a problem, you could help with