27 Apr
2004
27 Apr
'04
11:44 a.m.
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 08:13:36AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
debian is about to exclude all "non-free"
material from their
distributions. this includes firmware, documentation et al.
If you're referring to the recent vote, the point was to make sure the
debian system didn't *require* non-free software to function. They're
still keeping 'non-free' and 'contib' around. They say that these two
areas are 'no longer part of the distribution', but they'll still
support them as part of the archive and via their bug-tracking system.
So, in order to get the firmware, you'll probably just have to do
something like 'apt-get install alsa-nonfree'.
Cheers,
- Mike