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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. > >> 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 - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iEYEARECAAYFAk9K2rcACgkQF1wXlvLxlNgFAwCgmr8CxiiokFLg65wYocHH4eWT dd4An2AbyLE1G0Va7czqxQvICXNgpSYJ =hx7V - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iEYEARECAAYFAk9K54IACgkQF1wXlvLxlNigdwCgiXAiZbTIL0UFuxqb8o2AIjDN Us4AniW5IWagrxL+YExMjr0fGKUbF8o1 =G+w+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/09a2a959-3733-4e57-b560-16f11d494...@atmyhome.org
