Hello Brian, Am 2004-12-10 17:39:05, schrieb Brian Nelson:
> As for whether Debian would actually distribute the firmware blobs in > main, I would prefer that we do. It can be a real pain installing > Debian on a system in which I have to retrieve the firmware from an > external source. It's only hurting the end-user by making them jump > through more hoops to install Debian, with no obvious benefit. However, > there seems to be a strong movement to make Debian 100% free down to the > last bit. Reversing this movement is another much more controversial > issue. Sorry, but I have used WfW 3.11, Win95, WinNT 3.51/4.0 and now Win2003 Server (at work) and I have on the Win2003 Server 14 CD/Floppys to use to get the right Driver installed. So if I must use 14 CDs/Floppys to get Win2003 Server running why it is a problem for GNU/Linux ? I have made a litle program which use "cabextract" to get the BLOB. Where is THE problem ? I think, Debian should support Drivers in main which requires BLOBs because moving the Driver to contrib will make some installations impossibel. Having it in main give the $USER the possibility to load the required blob from CD or Floppy. I think, this is highly acceptabel. Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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