Hmm, so what distro do you reccomend.

(Has a sinking feeling you're going to reply Gentoo. Which I mentally categorise under "No fucking way")

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From what I read, it's not been removed--just moved into "non-free". (OTOH, I've not dealt with Debian directly; the apt-based distro I've been using is Ubuntu, so I could be wrong.)

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Nope. It was in "non-free" for a while, but now it's completely gone. Debian's lawyers disagree with those for every other distribution out there and claim that the license does not grant redistribution rights.

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I can understand the reason you hate Debian, now. I'd just find a .deb or use an additional apt repo, but maybe you have a reason for not doing that.

I ignore the political crap and maintain my own repo of "forbidden" software for my servers. I need to do things, dammit.

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Exactly. The point of running computers is to get work done. Debian has forgotten that, in their rush to be simon-pure on "free software" doctrine.

The solution, BTW, was to suck down old .debs from the oldstable distribution. They installed fine. Now, if we could get X running on the box...but that's not necessarily my problem.

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debian is always 2 years behind every other linux distro anyway. I think they're still using kernel 1.2.13.

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