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On 14/05/2011 12:26 PM, Bret Busby wrote:
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<pre wrap="">With, from what I understand, the removal of hardware drivers from the
Debian 6 kernel ("you can install our operating system, but you have
find, get, and install all of the hardware drivers for your computer
system and peripherals, before you start to install our operating
system"), I am looking at alternatives to Debian itself.</pre>
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Not sure if you've tried this, but "apt-get install
firmware-linux-nonfree" probably solves much (all?) of that -- 172
drivers I count in there; it's in the "non-free" repository, so your
apt.sources probably needs to be:<br>
<blockquote>deb <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian/">http://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian/</a> stable main
contrib non-free<br>
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The corresponding "free" firmwares are in the other package,
"firmware-linux-free", which will probably get installed by default,
and will be in the main repo. It's a conscious decision/effort to
actually install Non Free Stuff on your system.<br>
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<pre wrap="">So, what can people with experience of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, tell me of
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and how it compares to Debian 5 and Debian 6?</pre>
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Sadly, I haven't had the time to play with it at all. :(<br>
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HTH.<br>
<br>
James<br>
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