Debian has removed the non-free drivers (firmware) from the Linux kernel. The Copyleft Plus discs makes these available again both during the installation and later. Hotplug should load these automagicly. An important property of these discs is that they can be substituted for the first disc of the Official CD and DVD sets. The first CD can be used for a network installation, either Copyleft Plus or Official.

All the non-free, contrib and Debian-multimedia i386 and amd64 packages are now included in Copyleft Non-Fee DVD. This disc should be scanned in the normal way when making the installation. This disc works flawlessly with aptitude and synaptic enabling the non-free and contrib packages to be installed. Starting with Lenny (Debian 5) a large number of free program's documentation was judged to be non-free. This documentation is included on the disc along with the non-free firmware, other drivers and a large number of useful programmes. With Squeeze (Debian 6) virtually all the contrib packages are placed very late in the disc sets and not all packages are included. This disc can be used with both i386 and amd64.

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