On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 10:42:49AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:

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>
> But Debian does allow the installation of nonfree drivers. And, if I
> recall correctly last time I installed (a long, long time ago), it did
> ask the question.
>
> We want the reputation of rejecting monolithic blocks of horrible code
> when that is practical, and in the case of systemd, we want to show
> that it is practical, and even beneficial.
>
> We don't want to give the impression that without systemd, video card
> performance is the pits.
>

This is the standard policy in Debian, AFAIK:

https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware#Firmware_during_the_installation

The debian installer does *not* provide non-free firmware but allows
the user to provide it in a separete medium (e.g.,a USB stick) and the
installer will ask during installation if the user wants to use that
firmware.

There is a *separate* netinst CD which includes non-free firmware for
network adapters, and no more. It is made available, but it is *not*
the default netinst, and marked as *unofficial*.

I honestly don't mind about a journalist complaining about the fact
that Devuan does not supply third-party non-free drivers for his video
card, because a substantial majority of the distributions, including
also Debian, do the same (i.e., they do *not* provide non-free drivers
upon installation).

HND

KatolaZ

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