Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, quite a lot actually - we can then ask people to feed a floopy or > CD containing the vendor-supplied firmware. Do keep up... A floopy? Maybe I'm failing to keep up (I've obviously taken a long time to get to reading this message), but why can't th

Re: wrong meaning of "GNU/Linux" on Debian Project mainpage

Am Thu, 06 Jan 2005 00:50:07 +0100 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen: > * Johannes Rohr > > | Linus says: Linux is an OS, using the GNU tools and being packaged by > | distributors. > > nah, he doesn't. He says that Linux is a kernel and useless without > any programs to use. It's also fairly boring to

Re: documentation x executable code

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > 1. The kama sutra is not software, because it is not part of anything >containing executable code *and* it was *not* created with the intent >of ever being such. So you're claiming that none of the instructions in the kama sutra were intended to be carr

Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:30:48PM +1100, Sam Couter wrote: > Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, quite a lot actually - we can then ask people to feed a floopy or > > CD containing the vendor-supplied firmware. Do keep up... > A floopy? > Maybe I'm failing to keep up (I've obvious