On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:57 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
[snip] I mostly agree with you on your discourse on HAL, please note
that I din't argue against HAL per se but only against being
forced to use it on every hardware I want to use current X on.
> What surprises me is how long this thread is. I would have thought that
> your advocacy of a truly silly position would have been quietly ignored.
What's silly in continuing to use HW that didn't fail for years in
addition to state of the art boxes that seem to have a maximum lifetime
built in?
> It is a mark of how smoothly things are running in the lives of large
> numbers of Debian users that we find time to waste on this.
But you're right, let's end this thread. Nobody is going to change mind,
I'm arguing from an ecological position you from a technological one.
> On your desire to keep your old software running: I have found that I
^^^^^^^^ nope: HW
> can replace my old hardware fairly regularly to keep myself 3 t0 5 yrs
> behind the current situation by watching for computers sitting beside
> dumpsters near college dormitories in the spring.
Essentially the same here but shortly after X-mas and 5 to 10 yrs.
Who wants dumped crap? I'm still moaning about dec's decline :)
btw I'm waiting for DAM's decision and for an unrelated OSS project
to come up to pace. Ample time for lurking on d-user :)
no hard feelings
Siggy
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