3 ms·

I wonder why OpenBSD does not provide a separate non-free firmware included ISO mirror like Debian does.

• traceroute66 5y ago
  > I wonder why OpenBSD does not provide a separate non-free firmware included ISO mirror like Debian does. Unfortunately powers that be at OpenBSD are pretty hardcore about "Open means open".
  • mnd999 5y ago
    Ahh yes, Theo. Some of his email chains are even more entertaining than the famous LKML ones.
  • enriquto 5y ago
    "Fortune" is subjective... I find this quite fortunate, to be honest!
• brynet 5y ago
  OpenBSD includes firmware it can permissively redistribute, for example as of 7.1, OpenBSD developers spent many months working with Realtek to change the firmware license for rtwn(4), urtwn(4) and rsu(4) wireless devices so that it could be included in base and on the install media. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=163331097625151&w=2 https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=163331097625151&w=2 For firmware that cannot be distributed on the install media, it is instead packaged separately and made installable through fw_update(8), if you have a working Internet connection will be fetched automatically from the installer or on first boot. You can also add firmware to install media yourself, if you have an existing OpenBSD install: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#WifiOnly https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#WifiOnly