<story><title>Debian 12 “Bookworm”</title><url>https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20230610</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>troad</author><text>Congratulations to the Debian team!&lt;p&gt;An important change appears to be the inclusion of non-free firmware by default in the official install image for the first time, as a result of this vote: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.debian.org&amp;#x2F;vote&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;vote_003&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.debian.org&amp;#x2F;vote&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;vote_003&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Intriguing. I feel a little torn on this. One the one hand, I appreciate being able to install Debian from an official image onto a bothersome device. On the other, I can&amp;#x27;t help but feel we&amp;#x27;re losing something when even a purist distribution like Debian is forced to concede in the fight against proprietary blobs.&lt;p&gt;Edit: dropped the word &amp;#x27;kernel&amp;#x27; from &amp;#x27;proprietary blobs&amp;#x27;, as rightly picked up by kind commenters below.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bayindirh</author><text>I was involved in the discussion, and I&amp;#x27;m also torn on that issue, but at least you can disable installation of non-free firmware and install Debian without any non-free software.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, firmware is a convoluted issue. It was always present, but became increasingly visible over the years. While I&amp;#x27;m a strong Free Software supporter, firmware is one of the hardest parts to convert, because of the IP it entails and trade secrets it embodies.</text></comment>
<story><title>Debian 12 “Bookworm”</title><url>https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20230610</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>troad</author><text>Congratulations to the Debian team!&lt;p&gt;An important change appears to be the inclusion of non-free firmware by default in the official install image for the first time, as a result of this vote: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.debian.org&amp;#x2F;vote&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;vote_003&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.debian.org&amp;#x2F;vote&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;vote_003&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Intriguing. I feel a little torn on this. One the one hand, I appreciate being able to install Debian from an official image onto a bothersome device. On the other, I can&amp;#x27;t help but feel we&amp;#x27;re losing something when even a purist distribution like Debian is forced to concede in the fight against proprietary blobs.&lt;p&gt;Edit: dropped the word &amp;#x27;kernel&amp;#x27; from &amp;#x27;proprietary blobs&amp;#x27;, as rightly picked up by kind commenters below.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yrro</author><text>Debian was never a purist distribution. If it was then there wouldn&amp;#x27;t have been a non-free section in the archive in the first place.&lt;p&gt;The sad truth is that the Linux distributions recommended by the FSF have approximately zero users.</text></comment>