LIBRE distro
I am considering moving to a libre distro. What would you recommend to use? I tried FSF gnewsense and is relatively quite old. Could you please give me the pros and cons of this?
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Before even considering a libre distro I would test if your hardware will run without proprietary firmware and drivers. On my laptop, for example, running libre is impossible, for one because of the Broadcom WLAN adapter, but also because the free radeon driver overheats my CPU.
The pros of a libre distribution? You are only running free software. The cons? You are only running free software, limiting yourself to sometimes inferior solutions for ideological reasons. |
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I am using it on IBM R51. On the R61 I used at work the wifi is not detected. The rest is. Considering what you guys have said. I might just give up and use CentOS5.8
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If you want to use your wifi, look at the Debian Wiki how to install the drivers for it, most of the time it involves activating the non-free repo. |
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There are "unofficial" CD images with non-free firmware included: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/un...ding-firmware/
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