Non-opensource drivers

Matthew Paul Thomas mpt at canonical.com
Wed Nov 29 04:53:34 GMT 2006


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On Nov 27, 2006, at 3:46 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> ...
> "Do you want to install non-free drivers" is *really* something that
> most of our users should never see. It requires them to make a decision
> based on issues that we don't expect them to understand. The only
> vaguely reasonable thing to do is put it under an "advanced" menu as
> Colin suggested, and I'm actually uncomfortable even with that.
> ...

+1

Now that we have a shiny graphical installer, the parade has begun of 
people proposing very boring things to include in it. Alas.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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