> The official live images are generated already in 8 flavours, and > duplicating them requires a lot of additional testing effort. Do you > volunteer to test them?
I understand that providing the live images is a lot of work, that Debian has limited volunteers, and that perhaps it's not currently possible to provide the live images without a non-free-firmware option. But if that's the case, then at the very least that should be disclosed on the live image download page. Since the Debian homepage "Who We Are", "What We Do", and "Our Philosophy" pages all promote Debian as Free Software, the live image download page should at least tell people to choose another download method if such Free Software is what they're intending to install. Currently, to read those promo pages and then click/download/get something quite different than what's promoted, without warning or explanation, is very misleading. Until there's an update, just one additional sentence under "Is live image suitable for me" would be enough to not mislead users. > Since you wrote that you have 29 non-free-firmware components (BTW there > is no non-free on the live images) after installation, you probably > needed them for the hardware support. I'm curious, does your computer > still work properly after you have removed them? Yes, my computer works great after removing all the non-free-firmware. In fact, better: With the non-free Atheros firmware, my wifi adapter was having issues that it never had with Bullseye / previous releases. Once I removed that non-free Atheros and installed the Free Ath9k, my wifi adapter worked perfectly again. It seems to me that Bullseye and previous always installed Ath9k for me. However, that's a different issue of much lesser importance. I'm just confirming that, yes, my computer works properly without any of those 29 non-free-firmware components. Thank you for your attention, reply, and efforts! Replying to: https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2024/05/msg00002.html Original: https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2024/05/msg00000.html
