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Well I think it fits in with the spirit of what contrib tries to do. It removes the need of Debian or the user to have to try and check every upstream build an impossible task anyway and keeps main pure. If you install something that undermines dpkg and breaks your system you get to keep the halves....

For those less versed in the ancient lores. The Saga of Aqua and Urine continues. Episode 2: Choices main contrib non-free non-free-firmware Users:-------------Pure-Debian Craptastic----------main--------- ---contrib------------------non-free--------------non-free-firmware Pee-wee-------------main--...

"python and perl and lua are free Libre open source software aren't they. Nobody is saying they have to go in non-free. All of them could be written as scripts or to fetch and install either free or non-free software. That script or software is the determining factor. That's what defines which...

Please don't use half of the quote. That's disingenuous. The first part as I said would meet the DFSG

python and perl and lua are free Libre open source software aren't they. Nobody is saying they have to go in non-free. All of them could be written as scripts or to fetch and install either free or non-free software. That script or software is the determining factor. That's what defines which catego...

This works

I'm not in icewm at the moment but I have this setup key "XF86Standby" killall -QUIT icewm key "XF86AudioLowerVolume" aumix -v -5 key "XF86AudioRaiseVolume" aumix -v +5 key "XF86AudioMute" aumix -v 0 key "XF86AudioPlay" cdplay play 1 key "XF86Au...

No one gives a crap if you or anyone else, Knowingly wants to install non-free slaveware on your own system. What's happening is the very opposite. Non-free slaveware unknowingly being installed on a free only system. What we're talking about here is installers in installers. How do we make sure eve...

I stand corrected.

A clue? http://www.fluxbox.org/help/man-fluxbox-keys.php KEYS You may specify a key by its key name (for example, a or space) or by its numeric keycode (for example, 38 or 0xf3). edit: I was clueless about the "stamp" bit Then saw the Print button in the header. On my laptop the print key ...

"You can't expect everyone to just use repositories." Where do you think flatpak's and snaps are stored? "Ubuntu destroyed that concept with ppa's." AUR seems to be working quite well. "Now you want to make it harder for people to get the software they want / need because o...

I don't think we're talking about the same thing. Not when I read the original post.

That's OK. As I said the container being free is irrelevant. It's what's in it and how the user can access that information to allow them to make their choices that's important.. Debian is already the application police. For dpkg. They have strict rules and guidelines for building packages. Hence th...

re: the Xiaomi. Many struggle to get the name right. I believe it's pronounced "sheowmi" think of a cats "meow" with "sh" instead of the m followed by a "me". I remember it as "show-me" but with pain! :mrgreen: Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 version differences...

Just because the container is floss it does not mean the things in the container are. Look at dpkg. You get main, contrib and non-free. The difference is Debian tells you what's in the dpkg and which category it's from. They check the source for you. Look at "wine" it's free software but i...

typo in your link this one works
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GPL Violations Related to Combining ZFS and Linux
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb ... and-linux/

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Xiaomi Redmi note 9 I managed to download the f-droid apk and copy it to the phone without activation all the crap that comes with it. Then installed all my apps from f-droid. Most google stuff has not been allowed but I can't remove some of them. It was cheap for the spec, it works. Some times a bi...

re the "Lenovo IdeaPad s340 Wifi Card (from lspci) Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0042] (rev 31)" I believe it should work with out non-free firmware. If you'd prefer a free software approach. https://linux-hardware.org/?id=pci:1...

My bad. There are two versions of molly. molly and molly-foss. I'm obviously using molly-foss Molly-FOSS is 100% free and open-source with zero property blobs re xmpp. I believe there has been a slight revival by some community resources are struggling with the bloat of hosting things like matrix I ...