Hi Geoffrey, On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 5:51 PM Geoffrey Mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> i went to the trouble of signing into one of my linux servers and reading > the link. > > It was your telling me not to talk about how RMS said as president of the > FSF that he was going to honor the Palestinian boycott of Israel. It had > nothing to do with linux mint. > > That link was to an archived Linux-IL post by Jeremy Hoyland (not by me) and it reads: « Jeremy Hoyland <https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il&q=from:%22Jeremy+Hoyland%22> Mon, 20 Nov 2017 05:10:06 -0800 <https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il&q=date:20171120> RMS was bullied into canceling his Israeli University talks by his (paying) Palestinian hosts. He explains here: http://stallman.org/articles/palestine-trip.html Can we PLEASE stop playing politics now? This is NOT the right forum, and we're none of us any good at it. RMS himself is a great example. J. [full disclosure; I use and enjoy Linux Mint, just as I enjoy the music of Richard Wagner. Bad people can create good things] » So it has everything to do with Linux Mint, and the tiresome argument that it should be avoided just because one of its lead developers may hold antisemitic views. Totally irrelevant. > > Geoff. > > As a side note, RMS jeapordized the FSF, project GNU, and pissed off Larry > Ellison, who instead of giving Open Office to the FSF gave it to the Apache > Foundation. > > This is discussed in Tzafrir's reply which was quoted in the reply to it in this exact link: https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il/msg66441.html I didn't write it either, but it seems to me that his doubts have some merit. -- > Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerusalem, Israel > On May 12, 2020, 10:23 AM +0300, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@gmail.com>, wrote: > > I have now tested all three links using chromium-browser and the "lynx" > browser on fedora and they all open fine in both browsers (as well as > firefox). Something is broken on your end, and I have no control on > proprietary browsers. > > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:16 AM Shlomi Fish <shlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:05 AM Geoffrey Mendelson < >> geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> The link wont open. I tried chrome and safari. >>> >>> >> Which link? There were several in my original email. For the record, they >> all open fine in firefox on fedora 32 x64. >> >> Regarding Safari, see >> https://apple.slashdot.org/story/15/06/30/2251253/is-safari-the-new-internet-explorer/ >> . Chrome is proprietary too (as opposed to chromium). Are you on an Apple >> iDevice? >> >> >>> Why not do some actual reasearch and look up the request that no one >>> affiliated with the IDF use Linux Mint due to their trearment of the >>> palestinians? Or his sorry, I pissed of the people that rule the world >>> appology? >>> >>> Dont take my word for it, you can find them in the internet archive. >>> >>> Geoff >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerusalem, Israel >>> On May 12, 2020, 9:44 AM +0300, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@gmail.com>, wrote: >>> >>> Hi Geoffrey! >>> >>> Please see >>> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il/msg66441.html and >>> let's drop the "antisemitism" argument once and for all. >>> >>> That put aside there are other distributions that should hopefully be >>> able to recognise and utilise most commodity hardware: >>> >>> * https://distrowatch.com/ >>> >>> * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 9:00 AM Geoffrey Mendelson < >>> geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Support antisemitism. Use Linux Mint. >>>> >>>> Geoff >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerusalem, Israel >>>> On May 12, 2020, 3:09 AM +0300, Shay Gover <govers...@gmail.com>, >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Why not install yourself? use mint distro. >>>> >>>> On Mon, May 11, 2020, 22:49 Dimid Duchovny <dim...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I'm looking to buy a desktop computer with Linux pre-installed for a >>>>> couple of senior citizens. I'd usually buy a generic PC and install >>>>> myself, >>>>> but now due to the coronavirus that's not an option. >>>>> The main uses are web browsing and skype/zoom. Looking for a stable >>>>> distro and long term support (e.g. the latest Ubuntu LTS). The hardware >>>>> needs to work out-of-the-box. >>>>> Specification wish list: >>>>> 512GB SSD >>>>> 16GB RAM >>>>> >>>>
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