www/distros common-distros.html

[Brett Smith]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Brett Smith <brett>     11/03/04 14:52:08

Modified files:
        distros        : common-distros.html 

Log message:
        bring Debian entry more coherently up-to-date, per johns and RMS

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/distros/common-distros.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.27&r2=1.28

Patches:
Index: common-distros.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/distros/common-distros.html,v
retrieving revision 1.27
retrieving revision 1.28
diff -u -b -r1.27 -r1.28
--- common-distros.html 27 Feb 2011 23:33:01 -0000      1.27
+++ common-distros.html 4 Mar 2011 14:52:05 -0000       1.28
@@ -65,20 +65,21 @@
 <h3 id="Debian">Debian GNU/Linux</h3>
 
 <p>Debian's Social Contract does say that all software in the main
-distribution will be free software. At present, that's not always true
-in practice: Debian has repeatedly made tacit or explicit exceptions for
-specific pieces of nonfree software, such as the blobs included in or
-accompanying Linux. The 2011 release of Debian, called
-&ldquo;Squeeze&rdquo;, has removed these blobs. That is a substantial
-step towards a completely free distro, but isn't all the way there.</p>
-
-<p>Debian also provides a repository of nonfree software.  According
-to the project, this software is &ldquo;not part of the Debian
-system.&rdquo; We understand that's important for organizational
-reasons, but users would be hard-pressed to make a distinction.  The
-repository is hosted on many of the project's main servers, and people
-can readily learn about software available through it by
-browsing Debian's online package database.</p>
+distribution will be free software.  However, Debian also provides a
+repository of nonfree software.  According to the project, this
+software is &ldquo;not part of the Debian system.&rdquo; We understand
+that's important for organizational reasons, but users would be
+hard-pressed to make a distinction.  The repository is hosted on many
+of the project's main servers, and people can readily learn about
+software available through it by browsing Debian's online package
+database.  This does too much to steer users towards proprietary
+software for us to endorse it.</p>
+
+<p>Previous releases of Debian also included nonfree blobs with the
+kernel Linux. Starting with the release of Debian 6.0
+(&ldquo;squeeze&rdquo;) in February 2011, these blobs have been moved
+out of the main distribution to separate packages in the nonfree
+repository.</p>
 
 <h3 id="Fedora">Fedora</h3>
 
@@ -189,7 +190,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2011/02/27 23:33:01 $
+$Date: 2011/03/04 14:52:05 $
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 </p>
 </div>