Re: Thank you for the welcome
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On Feb 25, 2012, at 11:23 PM, Luk Claes wrote:
>
> You might want to read the social contract [1] (and the Debian Free
> Software Guidelines) to learn about why that is not in the default
> Debian install and resides in non-free.
I did read per your link. That helps explain some things which I pondered
> Note that you can also find
> non-official images that do include the non-free firmware [2].
NOW I find this out? I did use the netinst method and now I know it could have been done another way. Someone should update the Debian PPC install guide. Well, learning the hard way isn't easy but it is instructive.
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>> I guess I have much to learn about Debian. Especially your package
>> management system. And whatever aptitude is (a package manager I know).
>
> There are a couple of choices for the package manager. synaptic is the
> one with a graphical interface. aptitude and apt-get are comparable to
> yum, but for Debian packages. dpkg is in the same way comparable to rpm.
> aptitude is usually preferred to apt-get as for most things it's more
> intuitive.
Thank you for the quick introduction. I have a slightly better idea of what each do. To learn the specifics is just taking some time with man pages and experimenting
>
>> I think this is going to be a long road for me.. *sigh*
>
> We are here to show you the short cuts and make it a fun and rewarding
> journey :-)
>
> Cheers
>
> Luk
>
> [1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract
> [2]
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/
You are a help Luk, I thank you very much
Kristen
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