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

["John L. Ries" <jries@salford-systems.com>]

I understand the desire to put "free software first" and segregate out 
packages that don't meet the standard, but if a free driver is not 
available for one's hardware, then I figure the least Debian could do is 
to offer to install a "non-free" one (purists should be free to change 
the config to block them categorically, so they get what they want).

Ideals are good, but one still has to deal with reality.

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On Mon, 27 Jul 2015, Michael Fothergill wrote:

> 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?
>
> MF
>
>  ​