[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“Once upon a time, a new Debian Linux release was a big
deal in Linux circles. It still is, but its child, Ubuntu Linux, is
the Linux distribution that gets all the headlines. There’s a
reason for that. Over the years, Debian has become more and more a
Linux just for Linux fanatics while the rest of the Linux family
has become more end-user friendly.“As I look over the features in the latest Debian, I can see why
Debian, while still popular as a building block for other Linux
distributions, is no longer as important as it once was. For
example, the default Debian distributions won’t include any
proprietary firmware binary files. While that will be popular with
die-hard free software fans, users who just want to use their Wi-Fi
hardware and to get the most from their graphics cards won’t be
happy.”
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