Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

[Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com>]

On 20/06/2015, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 19 June 2015 18:49:38 Bret Busby wrote:
>> On 20/06/2015, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Friday 19 June 2015 16:54:12 Bret Busby wrote:
>> >> Unfortunately, it appears that once a version of Debian Linux is
>> >> "released" and decreed stable, development of that version and its
>> >> packages, ceases, and it goes into maintenance mode, so that only
>> >> bugfixes and security vulnerabilities, are performed, if they are
>> >> deemed serious enough, and, for the packages that are not abandoned,
>> >> and, development of the version and its packages, is abandoned, like
>> >> when I once worked at a pulp and paper mill, which used to close down
>> >> production for three days every christmas, with only repairs and
>> >> maintenance and cleaning being done, except here, the shutdown of
>> >> production, becomes permanent, and maintenance mode takes over (for as
>> >> long as the maintenance is performed), once a version is decreed
>> >> stable, and "released".
>> >
>> > If you don't like it, don't use it.  No-one is making you.
>>
>> And that is the attitude of software developers, that some software
>> engineering lecturers who are worth their salt, warn against, as it
>> leads to the disrepute of the IT industry.
>
> Nonsense.  It is impossible to produce an OS that everybody likes.  Most
> people like Windows after all.  Use something you like.  Don't complain
> about
> something that many of us love and expect it to be changed just to suit you.
>


I am not seeking to have it changed to suit me. I just want it to work.


>
> There is enough choice out there, after all.  Have you tried Ubuntu with
> Mate?


>From what I have seen, mate, apart from being in spanish, does not
have the functionality of gnome 2.


I do not know why gnome 2 had to be eliminated due to it being a working thing.



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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
 "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
 A Trilogy In Four Parts",
 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

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