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| DATE | 2005-04-09 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] SuSE and Emperor Linux
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> That must have been a very long time ago. As you know there's only been
> 3 releases in the last six years and Woody and Sarge have been
> all-free. At this point, Debian is "purer" than Richard is, as they
> have rejected the FDL as non-free.
That's the measurement of Freeness?
> They're also going to rip out every
> bit of binary firmware from the drivers following the release of Sarge,
> which is further than anyone's ever gone in the name of Free Software
> purity so far as I know. Most Debian users don't seem to be exactly
> looking forward to that, but the Debian Developers took a vote, and
> that's what's going to be done.
>
Good for them
> >Not with all the drivers set up for the laptop. There are no free
> >drivers for the majority of the wifi cards, and the video cards.
>
> There's no question that caveat emptor is the rule there. I regularly
> run Debian's nv driver and there's nothing wrong with it and no need for
> me to run anything else.
Oh well. My Sony needed a special driver for the video card and then for the
television/projectr VGA
I'm planning on spending a few dollars to let an expert do this.
If I wanted to run an installfest, I'd do it for others, but I'm not
that interested for my own purposes.
> These days all my friends are buying ThinkPads
Too big and its an IBM.
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