Instead of being made entirely of free software, the next release of Debian Linux, Bookworm, will include proprietary drivers and firmware.

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[–]SoCo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It was already time for a new staple distro of Linux, as Debian had long chosen the standard path of bloat, privacy leaking, and insecurity by default. The excuse is usually because they want everything possible to work out of the box, automatically, including security.

It's already become super hard to tell what your Debian install is doing behind the scenes, why not include something as critical as secret code that is firmware automatically flashed to your hardware and it's lowest communication layers.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Everything you hate about Apple, Google and Microsoft without any of the ecosystem of applications! Seriously, what do they think the market for this is?

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It was only a matter of time but then Debian is a piece of shit OS.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Debian is obsolete anyway.

[–]notafed 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's package management system is really second to none. That's the biggest reason debian and its derivatives are as popular as they are.