Steven Robbins wrote: > >Luca Boccassi wrote: > >> Personally, I'd even go for option 4, so that other drivers are covered >> too (the general advice that can be found on the internet for users >> with nvidia hardware seems to be: "avoid Debian, go Ubuntu/Mint/etc", >> which is just a sad state of affairs). But option 5 is already a great >> improvement upon the status quo. > >Agree! > >The original post did mention video cards, but I'm left unsure whether the >non-free stuff in the NVidia case, for example, would fall into "firmware" >(hence included) or "drivers". If the latter, my sense is that Option 5 was >intended to be narrowly focused and exclude such drivers. I'd rather support >a wider focus that would include drivers -- basically any "non-free hardware >support package". So if Option 5 is narrow and Option 4 is wide-open "non- >free" maybe there's room for an option in between?
I have no desire to add a wider set of packages from non-free onto our media, I'm afraid. I'm entirely focused on firmware and **not** drivers. As and when we start to draft a GR to formalise what the project wants, feel free to add an option for that too but I personally wouldn't expect it to gain much traction. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews
