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
On 21/06/2015, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 20 June 2015 18:01:41 Bret Busby wrote:
>> mate, apart from being in spanish,
>
> codswallop!
>
> Lisi
>
At
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE_(software)
is
"
MATE (/mɑːteɪ/; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmate]) is a desktop
environment forked from the now-unmaintained code base of GNOME 2. It
is named after the South American plant Yerba mate and tea made from
the herb, mate.[3] The use of a new name, instead of GNOME, avoids
conflicts with GNOME 3 components.
"
Spanish.
At
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mate
is
"
Yerba mate (from Spanish [ˈʝerβa ˈmate]
"
Spanish.
At
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(beverage)
is
"
Mate (Spanish: [ˈmate]
"
Spanish.
At
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE_(software)
is
"
MATE has forked a number of applications originating as the GNOME Core
Applications, and developers have written several other applications
from scratch. The forked applications have new names - mostly in
Spanish:
"
But, them, you are the all-knowing ex-spurt, ane everyone who thinks
differently to you, is automatically absolutely wrong.
As you said, tha mate desktop is not spanish - it is codswallop.
And, as you are obviously always absolutely correct, the mate desktop
must be codswallop.
And, obviously, anyone who disagrees, must be wrong, because you said it.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"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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