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
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