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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 31, 2010, 10:30 PM »
http://blog.milkingt...gpl-for-dummies.html

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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 31, 2010, 10:12 PM »
Glad to help you out! :)
The GPLv3 allows peaceful coexistence with non-free parts, written for exactly that reason: to allow Linux to get proprietary drivers.

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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 31, 2010, 09:56 PM »
It is the most obvious source, isn't it?
Somewhere in the Debian docs, the Blobs are explained more detailedly. But I guess "binary large objects" is quite self-explaining.

:)

No problem!

(So what about changing the topic title now?  :P)

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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 31, 2010, 09:43 PM »
http://www.gnu.org/d.../common-distros.html

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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 31, 2010, 09:28 PM »
And if it's GPL, then it's GNU.
-Renegade (December 31, 2010, 09:22 PM)
Linux (the kernel) is not even GNU due to the driver BLOBs. No-one said that the whole distribution must also be.

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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 31, 2010, 07:30 PM »
GNU is actually a philosophy, standing for "freedom" "as in free speech, not in free beer".  :)
It represents the common sense that information of any kind should not be restricted in any way.

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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 31, 2010, 06:57 PM »
RMS has a different POV here.

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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 31, 2010, 06:22 PM »
IMHO "GNU/Linux" doesn't mean "GNU-only" - then you wouldn't have a very large distro, anyway. Since it doesn't mean GNU-only, it doesn't mean opensores-only either.
-f0dder (December 31, 2010, 03:16 PM)
Well, it MEANS GNU-compatible only.

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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 31, 2010, 10:26 AM »
Normal people don't care about "GNU" or "not GNU". I just wanted to clarify why this is not about "GNU/Linux".

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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 31, 2010, 10:06 AM »
I'm not familiar with what you're referring to.
-Renegade (December 30, 2010, 11:02 PM)
Debian's apt repositories have a "non-free" trunk. In Debian's kernel are some binary blobs for common drivers. Both are incompatible with the term "GNU/Linux".

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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 30, 2010, 10:51 PM »
Did you mean, 'Yep, so "Linux" is the wrong term'?

And did you mean, 'Tell me one major GNU/Linux distribution with a "non-free" repository or blobs in the kernel'?
-Renegade (December 30, 2010, 10:24 PM)
Debian. It has both.

So "GNU/Linux" I S plain wrong. "Linux" is the right term here.

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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 30, 2010, 10:01 PM »
To be absolutely clear, the reasons/motivations behind GNU/Linux are entirely political/philosophical, and NOT financial.
-Renegade (December 30, 2010, 09:57 PM)
Yep, so "GNU/Linux" is the wrong term. Tell me one major GNU/Linux distribution without a "non-free" repository or blobs in the kernel.

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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 30, 2010, 09:41 PM »
Well, that's Ubuntu, Debian's criminal cousin...  :)

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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 30, 2010, 09:22 PM »
- wtf is a patch tuesday?
-Stephen66515 (December 30, 2010, 09:18 PM)
Microsoft decided to patch once a month only. I wonder how people can be tired of that but not of the daily Linux distro fixes...

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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« on: December 30, 2010, 09:09 PM »
The title is misleading. All the items listed have nothing to do with GNU.  :)

BTW:
Of course Linux has bars similar to Windows. Or, in case of Ubuntu, OSX. Anyway, the whole thread leads into the wrong direction. Why switch when Windows fits my needs?

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General Software Discussion / Re: VLC Coming to Android
« on: December 29, 2010, 09:23 PM »
Random rant:

VLC was - technically - never an outstandingly good player. The cumulative video quality with the "built-in" codecs - ffdshow IIRC? - is rather bad, visible artifacts and all that. Whenever I have to use VLC for anything, I choose "use system codecs" - also ffdshow for me -, and for some weird reason it has a significantly better quality then; but what's the point to use VLC then?

Oh, and its "200% volume" feature is ridiculous. Take the worst meaning of "loudness" you can imagine; VLC will make it even worse.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Tabbed Plaintext: Good or not-so-good idea?
« on: December 26, 2010, 11:54 AM »
As the separator is user-defined and might as well be changed globally, depending on the implementation, it's OK.
But I do like 13, too.  8)

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Developer's Corner / Re: Tabbed Plaintext: Good or not-so-good idea?
« on: December 26, 2010, 10:48 AM »
If anyone cares, theory is done. Now we'll head over to the actually complicated part.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Word Lens goes viral
« on: December 22, 2010, 09:34 AM »
Waiting for an Android port ...  ;D

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Living Room / Re: iPod - tell me why I should buy one
« on: December 17, 2010, 09:04 AM »
Battery life is not its strong suit, however...
-Darwin (December 17, 2010, 09:01 AM)
Battery life is one of the most important issues with smartphones, as they are made for mobility, right?

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Living Room / Re: iPod - tell me why I should buy one
« on: December 17, 2010, 08:15 AM »
Apple is a good brand.
-PeterRossy (December 17, 2010, 07:44 AM)
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

But still I think that HTC is much better.
-PeterRossy (December 17, 2010, 07:44 AM)
So we're talking about smartphones then? Well, the Galaxy S is way better than all these HTC thingies will ever be with their tiny batteries.

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Living Room / Re: DDOS Ethics
« on: December 16, 2010, 12:30 PM »
Haha, I love RMS' reaction to all these DDOS thingies. "DDOS is bad because the application which does them is not open source".  ;D

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Living Room / Re: Can we compare file transfer protocols?
« on: December 16, 2010, 12:29 PM »
"File transfer protocols" is not exactly defined here, so I'd like to throw in decentral P2P (like eMule) as an alternative.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Tabbed Plaintext: Good or not-so-good idea?
« on: December 14, 2010, 04:33 AM »
I was just using ASCII to demonstrate what I wanted. Too lazy to do some GUI mockups.

Because they don't allow me to have multiple "pages" in only 1 file.  :P

I found it pointless to have one separate text file per format

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Developer's Corner / Re: Tabbed Plaintext: Good or not-so-good idea?
« on: December 13, 2010, 11:02 AM »
Well, I like penguins :) but I don't target a specific OS.
It is similar indeed, but it works differently and does a lot of stuff that I don't need, like assigning “text types“, pairs of keys and values etc.

What I want to do is nothing more than, basically, a tabbed Notepad.

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