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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250</H1>
<B>Gary Montalbine</B>
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<I>Sat Jun 4 19:10:56 CEST 2011</I>
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On 06/04/2011 11:57 AM, Hoyt Duff wrote:
><i> On 6/3/11, Gary Montalbine<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">gmontalbine at cox.net</A>> wrote:
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</I>>><i> I got the firmware from the IVTV site and copied it to /lib/firmware
</I>>><i>
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</I>><i> But that is a band-aid, a kludge, that gives you a cobbled-together
</I>><i> system, not to mention it does not really solve the problem for the
</I>><i> distro and the wider user base. And every time you need to install
</I>><i> Mageia on that hardware, you'll need to apply the kludge again and
</I>><i> again.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> The goal should be to have a distro that 'just works'. Solving the
</I>><i> problem by copying files from outside the repositories may point out a
</I>><i> deficiency in Mageia repos, but not if the solution can be found
</I>><i> within.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> And this brings up a point of having the tainted repos as "opt-in".
</I>><i> This thinking comes from a philosophy of some kind of "pure" Linux
</I>><i> which eschews non-free licensed software.However, some hardware can
</I>><i> only be useful with non-free software and it's unrealistic to pretend
</I>><i> that such hardware does not exist nor that those using such hardware
</I>><i> will have the knowledge and skill to enable the tainted repo.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I realize that the purists among us have decide to disable the tainted
</I>><i> repos by default, but those same people are the ones most likely to
</I>><i> have selected hardware that does not depend on non-free software and
</I>><i> they are also skilled Linux users. The opt-in approach serves to
</I>><i> advance their political agenda at the expense of having a distro that
</I>><i> 'just works' for the average to non-technical user.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> It may be more sense to enable the tainted repos by default and
</I>><i> provide an opt-out screen during the installation: "Repositories
</I>><i> offering access to software that have non-free licenses are enabled by
</I>><i> default. To keep your Mageia system unencumbered by software with
</I>><i> restrictive or non-free licenses, please un-check the box. Certain
</I>><i> hardware may not function without such non-free software and if you
</I>><i> are unsure, leave the box checked."
</I>><i>
</I>><i> That gives users a choice, makes Mageia a 'just works' distro for the
</I>><i> average user and reduces the number of requests for assistance that
</I>><i> can be solved by using non-free software.
</I>><i>
</I>I had the tainted repos installed since initial installation. The
firmware I needed was not there. At least not according to the software
manager.
Gary
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