Debian Chooses Reasonable, Common Sense Solution To Dealing With Non-Free Firmware - Slashdot
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Michael Larabel writes via Phoronix: Debian developers have been figuring out an updated stance to take on non-free firmware considering the increasing number of devices now having open-source Linux drivers but requiring closed-source firmware for any level of functionality. The voting on the non-f...

Debian to automatically load non-free [libre] firmware but inform users it is doing so. IMO a compromise to broaden hardware support.

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    2 years ago

    FOSS firmware absolutism requires decent FOSH which requires uhhhhhhh *checks notes* -- okay well it says here that it requires control of the means of production by the working class

  • dead [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    So the way debian works currently is that there are 3 repositories: main, contrib, and non-free. Main is for FOSS only. Contrib is for FOSS software that has non-free dependencies. Non-free is for software that is not FOSS.

    With the change, Debian is introducing a 4th repository called non-free-firmware, separating the non-free firmware from the other non-free software.