Re: Debian Libre - blend/pureblend/derivative?
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. <ballombe@debian.org>
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