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From: The Natural Philosopher on 12 Jan 2010 11:32
notbob wrote:
> On 2010-01-12, The Natural Philosopher <tnp(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> Michael Black wrote:
>
>>> Linux won't work with some hardware, because.....
>
>
>> This is the key point.
>
> It might be if Asus didn't offer this very same netbook with Linux.
>
> http://event.asus.com/eeepc/comparison/eeepc_comparison.htm

that doesn't mean there are not non free drivers involved.

My comments were not about any particular piece of hardware anwyay, so
your comment is irrelevant as a response to my post.
>
> Slackware also offers an official 64bit version, now. I've heard
> of no hardware complaints.
>
>

Like I said. 99% of the time linux works flawlessly. The 1% of the time
is where you get the frustrated peple smashing the internet bandwidth
with howls of despair ;-)

I was trying to convey some flavour of where problems might be expected,
generically, and how to forestall them. Not give an unqualified
endorsement or censure to any particular bit of hardware., or distro.



> nb
>
From: Darren Salt on 12 Jan 2010 14:27
I demand that The Natural Philosopher may or may not have written...

[snip]
> I will add one further issue. My wide writes websites. On a Mac. she came
> up with an issue with Firefox 3.5, which is not available under Debian at
> all

http://packages.debian.org/iceweasel says otherwise.

> the Iceweasel port is a port of firefox 2.X at current stable levels.

Again, http://packages.debian.org/iceweasel says otherwise.

[snip]
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Charm is a way of getting a "yes" without having asked any clear question.
From: The Natural Philosopher on 12 Jan 2010 15:25
Darren Salt wrote:
> I demand that The Natural Philosopher may or may not have written...
>
> [snip]
>> I will add one further issue. My wide writes websites. On a Mac. she came
>> up with an issue with Firefox 3.5, which is not available under Debian at
>> all
>
> http://packages.debian.org/iceweasel says otherwise.
>
>> the Iceweasel port is a port of firefox 2.X at current stable levels.
>
> Again, http://packages.debian.org/iceweasel says otherwise.
>
> [snip]


Only in unstable

lenny (stable) (web): lightweight web browser based on Mozilla
3.0.6-3 [security]: alpha amd64 arm armel hppa i386 ia64 mips mipsel
powerpc s390 sparc

is as good as it gets these days. In stable.

You have to go unstable to get 3.5.

I wasn't prepared to do that, and it wasn't available at all when I need
it about 9 months ago.



From: Darren Salt on 12 Jan 2010 18:25
I demand that The Natural Philosopher may or may not have written...

[snip]
> lenny (stable) (web): lightweight web browser based on Mozilla 3.0.6-3
> [security]: alpha amd64 arm armel hppa i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390
> sparc
> is as good as it gets these days. In stable.

> You have to go unstable to get 3.5.

Not when it's also in testing...

[snip]
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| using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds ,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army
| + Vermin Media. Not "nothing to hide" but "you're invading my privacy".

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
From: Backpacker on 12 Jan 2010 19:40
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> My wide writes websites.

Don't let her hear you calling her that... ;)

--
Backpacker

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