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Author: Dennis Kibbe
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To: michael, Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Useless and meaningless rant about my hate for Linux Mint...
writes:

> I hate Unity too...
> And/or the M$-like bloated KDE.
>
> Because my long hated (and mostly reliable) Linux Mint went out of
> support, I decided to go with what I hate the least: Xubuntu.
>

<SNIP>
> After fiddling with it for a day I decided: screw it, I'll go Debian Xfce.
> So I got my trusty net-install CD and...
> It said that it needed 'proprietary firmware' from Realtek, but WAIT!
> It also said that I could install from the 'proprietary firmware DVD'!
>

The firmware-realtek package is in the non-free repo. Add to
/etc/apt/sources.list or better /etc/apt/sources.d/. See man sources.list.

dennisk
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