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On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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>> Then don't update. Wanna keep up with upstream? Then accept that sometimes |
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>> you will need to change your setup, and change how you do stuff. Regards. |
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> This is so like something I have told folks about windoze. Awesome ! To |
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> think I stayed away from windoze because of the freedom Linux gives a user |
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> just to find out now, its not as different as I thought. :-( |
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But the freedom is still there. The freedom to either keep your system |
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as it is (don't upgrade), or to modify the source code to suit your |
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own needs. |
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Just don't expect from upstream to maintain code for each and every |
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possible configuration. It gets really complex really really really |
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fast. |
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Upstream (either Gentoo, or the kernel, or udev, or all of them) will |
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decide to support only a subset of all possible configurations and it |
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will mark them as supported. Don't aprove of that? Then maintain it |
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yourself (which you have the freedom to do), or keep up with the |
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change. |
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Freedom doesn't equals to "give me everything I want, and the way I |
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want it". The freedom we have is "here is this set of programs, and we |
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support this set of configurations; if you don't like it, here is also |
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the source code". Which is light years better than in Windows or MacOS |
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X. |
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> Yeppie !! |
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Yipi indeed. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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