Le Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 05:53:10PM +0000, Jeremy Stanley a écrit : > You seem to have gotten focused on the "can it boot without supplying > firmware blobs" question, and I agree that thankfully there's a lot of > hardware out there that's just fine booting Debian on its own. The bigger > issue is that major processor manufacturers are seeing multiple significant > security vulnerabilities annually in their microcode. Just in the time that > laptop sits on the shelf in a warehouse before it gets shipped to you, new > security vulnerabilities have been announced that it's susceptible to. These > days it's almost a sort of security malpractice to be "the distribution that > doesn't patch vulnerabilities in your firmware."
The objection is not about using the firwmare, this is about distributing it. This is a different consideration. You might want to install Debian in a system image or container that does not require firmware, free or not. Why should you download non-free files you do not need ? Or you might want to download only the non-free firmware you actually need, and not all that are available in Debian. I suggest to call it debian-firmwarefree-live, with both meaning of free (libre and sans). Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
