On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 05:53:10PM +0000, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
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."
I'm afraid, repeating the arguments won't convince people subscribing to the FSF philosophy if it didn't convince them the previous time(s).
-- WBR, wRAR
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