Re: Help - 13-year Debian veteran can't install Jessie

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Subject: Re: Help - 13-year Debian veteran can't install Jessie
From: Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 18:49:33 +0100
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On 27 July 2015 at 18:27, Mark Allums <maa@allums.xyz> wrote:

On 07/27/2015 08:46 AM, Hans wrote:

Am Montag, 27. Juli 2015, 08:13:29 schrieb john vera:

In one word, drivers.

Don't we mean: firmware. Nonfree firmware was removed from Debian main for some silly reason. A lot of hardware needs it to function.

I agree. Having to install the firmware manually to get X11 working is a bit Arthur Tuttlesque.

Why not go the whole hog and install Gentoo instead?

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