Linked by Dedoimedo on Thu 17th Mar 2011 23:17 UTC
Writing about Debian is not a simple thing. You know it's the giant that has spawned pretty
much every other distro out there. It's almost like a Roman Empire, almost a taboo.
Furthermore, it's not a desktop distro per se. It's more sort of a template you use to build
your platform. It's also a SOHO server distro, therefore it more fits into the business
category, comparable to CentOS and similar.
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2006-11-09
And until this release Debian included many of those blobs. It came under significant flak for doing so (and rightly so) because it claimed to be a free distribution but was distributing non-free software without making the user aware. Debian fixed that by moving the blobs to the non-free repository. It was always going to cause problems like this but a small amount of reading would have notified the author of this.
yes a lot of people want things to just work (usually without specifying what that means) but seriously Debian can win for trying here. I think by putting them in non-free (and thus available if you want them) they've done the right thing.