Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: What I've been up to with Linux lately

That is okay for RMS who uses just EMACS. But for people who want a
computer that does something more than from the 1980s, we need more. My
experience with Debian illustrates a problem. If you cannot get the OS to
do what you want then you do not use the OS. You are erecting barriers and
to what purpose, to chase some ideal in an unideal world. In the end
it hurts your cause because it if people stop using it, what are you making
it for?

It does no good making binary blobs available if you cannot get to them
because you have no connection. What do they not get about this?

Roy

Using Kubuntu 12.04, 64-bit
Location: Canada


On 12 June 2012 21:24, Paul <pfrederick1@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Roy <linuxcanuck@...> wrote:
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> > I guess there aren't too many Newbies. We must have brought them along to
> > by veteran users.
> >
> > I am glad that you like Debian. I am assuming that it is version 6. I
> could
> > not get it to work. It would not support my ethernet card and there is
> not
> > way to download one without it. Dumb.
> >
> > I liked KDE 3.5, but have moved on to KDE 4. Trinity is the KDE version
> of
> > Mate. I can't understand the logic. These projects are killed for valid
> > reasons. The language in which they are written are dead ended by the
> > project. That means you are being superseded on every application and are
> > either losing features or losing applications themselves as
> > the developers abandon it for the newer version of QT. You have to REALLY
> > like it to want to use it.
> >
> > Roy
> >
> > Using Kubuntu 12.04, 64-bit
> > Location: Canada
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> Debian doesn't distribute binary blobs by default, so you have jump
> through some hoops in order to activate whatever hardware needs them in
> order to work. It is some nonsense so RMS can just drop in a CD and run
> Debian, or something. Then again I could blame the hardware manufacturers
> too. They could submit legitimate code to the kernel.
>
> Searching for Debian non-free firmware should dredge up a number of links
> with different methods of dealing with it.
>
> I really like that I have freedom of choice. Presently I have chosen not
> to adopt KDE 4 but stick with KDE 3.5 as I am not interested in what the
> KDE developers are doing now. I've all the applications and features I need.
>
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