From a35bbf043d05d833ada0169a8908c449db1db4c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karsten Merker Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 20:49:06 +0000 Subject: Installation-guide cleanup * Various small removals / updates / amendments in chapter 3, most of them concerning outdated information. * Extended the "Devices Requiring Firmware" section. * Rewrote large parts of the "Avoid Proprietary or Closed Hardware" section. * Rewrote the "Hardware Compatibility" section. * Amended the "Network Settings" section. * Rewrote the "Pre-Partitioning for Multi-Boot Systems" section to bring it up to date with the current d-i features and make it easier to read for beginners. * Rewrote the "Pre-Installation Hardware and Operating System Setup" section to bring it up to date for modern hardware. --- en/hardware/buying-hardware.xml | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'en/hardware/buying-hardware.xml') diff --git a/en/hardware/buying-hardware.xml b/en/hardware/buying-hardware.xml index 48c20e4c7..a6dd3b144 100644 --- a/en/hardware/buying-hardware.xml +++ b/en/hardware/buying-hardware.xml @@ -36,11 +36,9 @@ vendors. Some hardware manufacturers simply won't tell us how to write drivers for their hardware. Others won't allow us access to the documentation without a non-disclosure agreement that would prevent us from -releasing the &arch-kernel; source code. - - - -Since we haven't been granted access to the documentation on these +releasing the driver's source code, which is one of the central +elements of free software. +Since we haven't been granted access to usable documentation on these devices, they simply won't work under &arch-kernel;. @@ -61,7 +59,8 @@ In other fields, among them e.g. printers, this is unfortunately not the case. While there are many printers which can be addressed via a small set of (de-facto-)standard control languages and therefore can be made to work without problems in any operating system, there are quite a few models which -only understand proprietary control commands and either cannot be used at +only understand proprietary control commands for which no usable +documentation is available and therefore either cannot be used at all on free operating systems or can only be used with a vendor-supplied closed-source driver. -- cgit v1.2.3