[Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

Fri Mar 25 13:24:32 CET 2011

2011/3/25 Frank Griffin <ftg at roadrunner.com>:
+>
+> You can say what you like about newbies or "Aunt Edna", but anyone who can
+> find one ISO for themselves can find two, and the argument about how the
+> drivers/firmware wouldn't take up much space on the DVD goes both ways,
+> since downloading a separate ISO for them is then not that big a deal in
+> terms of bandwidth.
+>
+> If you can't understand a reasonably verbose panel that says that "your
+> computer's hardware requires our secondary network/drivers/firmware
+> CD/DVD/ISO in order to activate networking", and says that you can find it
+> in the same place you got this disk, be that a network repository or a
+> friend who burned it for you, then you probably need to be reminded to
+> breathe.  Such people are hardly about to be Mageia early-adopters, and we
+> have some time to discuss how we want to deal with them.
+
++1
+Especially migrators from Windows will understand this "To activate
+this hadware you need an extra driver" approach - they see it almost
+every time they install a hardware which is not really mainstream (and
+for some mainstream hardware as well).
+
+-- 
+wobo
+