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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer</H1>
<B>Wolfgang Bornath</B>
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<I>Fri Mar 25 13:24:32 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>2011/3/25 Frank Griffin <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">ftg at roadrunner.com</A>>:
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</I>><i> You can say what you like about newbies or "Aunt Edna", but anyone who can
</I>><i> find one ISO for themselves can find two, and the argument about how the
</I>><i> drivers/firmware wouldn't take up much space on the DVD goes both ways,
</I>><i> since downloading a separate ISO for them is then not that big a deal in
</I>><i> terms of bandwidth.
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</I>><i> If you can't understand a reasonably verbose panel that says that "your
</I>><i> computer's hardware requires our secondary network/drivers/firmware
</I>><i> CD/DVD/ISO in order to activate networking", and says that you can find it
</I>><i> in the same place you got this disk, be that a network repository or a
</I>><i> friend who burned it for you, then you probably need to be reminded to
</I>><i> breathe.  Such people are hardly about to be Mageia early-adopters, and we
</I>><i> have some time to discuss how we want to deal with them.
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+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).
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wobo
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