Re: two basic "new to Debian" questions: network config & RMS
vineyard saker <vineyardsaker@gmail.com> writes:
> 1) during my install I was not connected to the Internet (I had
> ordered the 14 Debian CDs from budgetlinuxcds) and I therefore did not
> configure my network card. Now I would like to connect my computer to
> the rest of my computers on a home network. What would you reccommend
> as the best application to do this?
Definitely ifupdown -- that's The Debian Way of networking. Install
the 'ifupdown' package, read 'man 5 interfaces', and set up
/etc/network/interfaces.
> 2) I vaguely remember hearing that there were some disagreements
> between the Debian team and Richard Stallman but I do not remember
> what caused it. Could anyone point me to the right place to read up
> on this?
There are two disagreements I'm aware of. First of all, Debian thinks
works released under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) are
non-free, while RMS thinks they are free or the freedoms they lack
don't matter (I forgot which one). Secondly, Debian distributes both
free software and proprietary software (the 'non-free' section) in the
same way. Debian doesn't consider this to be a problem, RMS does.
Search the Debian mailing list archive for posts from RMS.
Martin
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