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| 2022-04-19 |
McIntyre suggest fives ways to deal with non-free firmware |
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Steve McIntyre is a Debian Developer and was Debian's Project Leader from April 2008 to April 2010. McIntyre has pointed out that project's current approach to non-free firmware (excluding non-free firmware from the default media, but providing separate, unofficial media with the missing firmware packages) is ackward and causes a lot of problems and confusion for new users. "In my opinion, the way we deal with (non-free) firmware in Debian is a mess, and this is hurting many of our users daily. For a long time we've been pretending that supporting and including (non-free) firmware on Debian systems is not necessary. We don't want to have to provide (non-free) firmware to our users, and in an ideal world we wouldn't need to. However, it's very clearly no longer a sensible path when trying to support lots of common current hardware." McIntyre goes on to suggest five options concerning how non-free firmware could be handled in future versions of Debian. |
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