On 2025-01-03 02:59, gene heskett wrote:
On 1/2/25 21:20, mick.crane wrote:
On 2025-01-01 21:46, gene heskett wrote:
On 1/1/25 13:48, Joe wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 14:58:25 +0100
poc...@homemail.com wrote:
[...]
In fact I'm sure you've noticed that help is often offered to users
of
other systems, but tentatively and with warnings that it may not
work.
"Gene is a special case in that he uses non-standard hardware to do
things that the rest of us don't do, working in ways that we don't
work. We do our best, but that's often not good enough".
I've no idea what gene is talking about but his questions indicate
somebody who wants to be in control of his own operating system.
Isn't that what this stuff is all about?
mick
Absolutely Mick. Don't adjust your antenna, the pix is perfect.
I know that Torvalds discovered that mimix had been released for free,
grabbed it, and started writing a kernel and gave it away with no
encumbrances and that's what started this whole thing off.
Really it shouldn't matter what the hardware is if there's a human
readable system to get a computer to do what you want.
Myself I have my suspicions that all the nuances and complications may
have been introduced by the control freaks who do not want us free to do
our own thing.
mick
