What’s the difference between official and unofficial images?
Official images are built by a member of the Debian CD team and have undergone some testing to ensure they work. Once they have been released, the images never change - if they turn out to be broken, a new set with a different version number is released.
Unofficial images can be built by anyone - CD team members, other Debian developers or even advanced Debian users. Typically, they are more up-to-date, but have received less testing. Some have new features (e.g. installation support for new hardware), or contain additional software packages which are not part of the Debian archive.
问题在于,“unofficial ISO” 不仅包括这种由Debian CD Team制作的含有firmware的ISO,还包括其他Debian开发人员甚至Debian 用户制作的ISO。所以我的建议是在翻译时区分两者,将Debian开发人员制作的不属于Debian的ISO(无论这种ISO是否是Debian CD Team制作的含有firmware的ISO)称为"非正式的",将非Debian开发人员制作的不属于Debian的ISO称为"非官方的”。
a) They try Debian, and find out they have to learn how the different
package areas work, reconfigure their package sources
(they would need that anyway as they need firmware and, very probable,
nvidia-driver)
Which one do we. as a community, prefer?
The project usually seems to prefer “free software” over “our users”.
On the other hand, are you asking how should we interpret our founding
documents, or what should we put in them?
Which one do we. as a community, prefer?
The project usually seems to prefer “free software” over “our users”.
No, the project prefer what is both free software and serves our users.
Reason is that we prioritize free software and our users (not free
software or our users).
Concretely, our main priority is to maintain “main”, “contrib” available
as well but maintained at a lower priority.