[Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2011/3/25 Frank Griffin <ftg at roadrunner.com>:
>
> You can say what you like about newbies or "Aunt Edna", but anyone who can
> find one ISO for themselves can find two, and the argument about how the
> drivers/firmware wouldn't take up much space on the DVD goes both ways,
> since downloading a separate ISO for them is then not that big a deal in
> terms of bandwidth.
>
> If you can't understand a reasonably verbose panel that says that "your
> computer's hardware requires our secondary network/drivers/firmware
> CD/DVD/ISO in order to activate networking", and says that you can find it
> in the same place you got this disk, be that a network repository or a
> friend who burned it for you, then you probably need to be reminded to
> breathe.  Such people are hardly about to be Mageia early-adopters, and we
> have some time to discuss how we want to deal with them.

+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).

-- 
wobo