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| From | Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.project |
| Subject | Re: GitHub Open Source Survey 2017 |
| Date | 2017-06-07 14:20 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <tPI6m-6wb-11@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 01:49:54PM +0200, Christian Seiler wrote:
> > Or
> > that you can sanely run x86 without at least {intel,amd64}-microcode.
>
> Well, on some systems you can install BIOS/UEFI updates that will
> load newer microcode very early in the boot process. In that case
> you really don't need the {intel-amd64}-microcode packages, and
> you could potentially run just Debian main without any non-free
> software on the disk.
But they are generally updated less often than the Debian packages.
Also, it's a good idea to think about the difference between a system with
the microcode updated by UEFI and one with the microcode updated by a
Debian package wrt open sourceness and such stuff.
--
WBR, wRAR
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