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Re: DragonFlyBSD
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Samuel Banya |
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Re: DragonFlyBSD |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Feb 2022 21:53:14 -0500 |
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The only two distros with sane installers I've used with the latest Emacs right
out of the bat that was available have been Manjaro and Fedora.
On Sat, Feb 26, 2022, at 11:45 AM, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU
Emacs text editor wrote:
> Jean Louis wrote:
>
> >>> What I like is system consistency, like what Debian has,
> >>> that one can upgrade the system over and over again
> >>> without reboot, and all things work. Uptime like 536 days
> >>> or 966 days is what I have now on some computers
> >>> with Debian.
> >>
> >> Yeah I've used Debian for a long time, I like it a lot but
> >> don't say necessarily it is better than other distros.
> >
> > For me, I look from freedom viewpoint, I cannot recommend
> > Debian as it will recommend non-free software to fellows.
> > So I exclude non-free and use those FSF fully free
> > distributions, sometimes self-made distribution for myself
> > only. It's not that hard to build it yourself.
>
> You can do that on Debian by excluding the non-free part from
> the sources.list line(s) - never heard of anyone actually
> doing that tho ...
>
> >> In particular, I think the package manager system and whole
> >> idea installing stuff explicitely from the command line
> >> should be replaced by a declarative system. It would have
> >> rollback features and all, but that's not the most
> >> important thing, the most important thing would be to have
> >> the system configurable and setup with precision and ease
> >> in text files like you do everything else in computing ...
> >
> > I don't like text files
>
> ?
>
> > I expect system to be very adjustable through user friendly
> > menus
>
> ??
>
> > And on GUI I would be doing it with mouse
>
> ???
>
> > In fact I expect in 21st century that computer knows me
> > enough, so that I do not need to adjust anything
>
> ????
>
> --
> underground experts united
> https://dataswamp.org/~incal
>
>
>
- DragonFlyBSD, (continued)
- DragonFlyBSD, Jean Louis, 2022/02/19
- Re: DragonFlyBSD, Emanuel Berg, 2022/02/19
- Re: DragonFlyBSD, Jean Louis, 2022/02/20
- Re: DragonFlyBSD, Emanuel Berg, 2022/02/21
- Re: DragonFlyBSD, Jean Louis, 2022/02/21
- Re: DragonFlyBSD, Samuel Banya, 2022/02/21
- Re: DragonFlyBSD, Jean Louis, 2022/02/21
- Re: DragonFlyBSD, Emanuel Berg, 2022/02/26
- Re: DragonFlyBSD, Emanuel Berg, 2022/02/26
- Re: DragonFlyBSD, Emanuel Berg, 2022/02/26
- Re: DragonFlyBSD,
Samuel Banya <=
- Re: DragonFlyBSD, Emanuel Berg, 2022/02/26
- Re: DragonFlyBSD, Lele Gaifax, 2022/02/21
- Re: DragonFlyBSD, Emanuel Berg, 2022/02/26
- Re: Would there be a drawback of using the same graphical toolkit on every platform?, Emanuel Berg, 2022/02/19
- Purposes of BSD-like systems, Jean Louis, 2022/02/20
- Re: Purposes of BSD-like systems, Po Lu, 2022/02/20
- Re: Purposes of BSD-like systems, Emanuel Berg, 2022/02/20
- Re: Purposes of BSD-like systems, Jean Louis, 2022/02/21
- Re: Purposes of BSD-like systems, Emanuel Berg, 2022/02/26
- Re: Purposes of BSD-like systems, andrew, 2022/02/21