On Mon, 2018-11-05 at 16:11 -0800, alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > On Mon, 2018-11-05 at 10:59 -0800, alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > Fedora also ships or gives you access to a number of packages that are > > > not > > > "ideologically pure". (NVIDIA drivers and the like.) It depends on > > > whether > > > you need those packages. > > > > AFAIK this is not the case. Fedora's official repos only contain free > > software. Other repos, notable RPMfusion, contain other things > > including proprietary drivers, but no doubt the same is true of Debian. > > The new version of the Gnome software app will point you to a subset of > those repositories on Fedora. Debian has a history of not wanting to ship > anything non-free. (More that almost any other distro I have seen.) Every > distro seems to have alternate repos with non-free or morally ambiguous > software. My point is that other repos, not directly supported by the Debian project, offer non-free software. This is exactly the same as Fedora. Their criterion for designating something as free may differ in some details, but the same basic philosophy holds with both projects. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
