[Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

Sat Mar 26 23:37:55 CET 2011

Op zaterdag 26 maart 2011 23:15:22 schreef Oliver Burger:
+> Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula at iki.fi> schrieb am 26.03.2011
+> 
+> > I don't really have a strong preference here, as long as
+> > 1) it is consistent, and
+> > 2) users are happy (e.g. no situation where even the free radeon
+> > driver doesn't work with any ISO)
+> 
+> Couldn't we have the following:
+> 
+> - Live CDs (like Mandriva One, including proprietary stuff) (live cds
+> are planned, aren't they?
+> - A purely free, libre and open source installer dvd
+> - An addon cd for the installer dvd containing the firmware, drivers
+> and stuff?
+> 
+> I know, if we have those "One-like" live cds, we don't really need the
+> last one, but I'm quite sure, there are more people than me out here,
+> who prefer a normal installer iso over a live cd...
+> 
+> Oliver
+
+During the times mandriva had several CDs to install it, the new ones often 
+only dl'ed one and complained when stuff didn't work.
+
+I forsee possibly here the same issue with this, people will forget to 
+download the extra non_free CD, or do not care about non_free; wipe their 
+windows, install mageia, and have no networking to even get drivers anymore.
+
+how would we advertise this anyway? this extra CD contains non_free software, 
+but if you have an machine with networking from vendor X with types Y,Z,... 
+you will absolutely need this to have functional networking?
+
+it sounds to me like an awful lot of extra work, and complaints, etc...
+
+but, maybe every new person uses liveCDs to install, i never did, so i 
+wouldn't know.
+
+pfff, this is really a difficult topic...
+