Just another political statement:
Today, I removed all Mono related stuff (TomBoy, F-Spot, Mono etc...) from my Hardy desktop.
I am not sure which one is ethically better, but I installed, just like I usually do in my Debian boxes, Google Picasa. It is closed sources, it uses Wine, but it works well enough, and it is cross-platform, so I can easily support all those Windows-customers of mine by using that same app...
Mono seems vicious... I do understand however the validity of the research, same thing applies for Moonlight, the FLOSS Silverlight clone...
But if I can avoid those things on my personal box, I would feel much better.
I am heading towards a "Gnu certified" desktop ;o) ... Well not really, since I have all the bad & ugly plugins, and the Nvidia drivers that I don't even use for my graphic card and a bunch of shameful codecs !...
I also installed the Java JRE 1.6... Heck, it's almost free ! But the Mozilla plugin seems to work better than both OpenJDK and Iced-Tea...
I must admit having the msttcorefonts also, mainly for my wife's account, as she does a lot of office work for university students, and they come with .doc from thumbdrives... It needs coherence...
Hey, thanks to the various devs, it's all possible today... Good job !
Las Terrenas
Here's a map of our area
The Samaná Peninsula
So many coconut trees !
The Dominican Republic
See Las Terrenas
The Carribean
The DR is right in the middle !
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3 comments:
There is a display problem, I can only see "well enough, and it i" and then "Mono seems vicious..." -- what kind of formatting are you using?! < pre > or < tt >?!
The text "it is cross-platform, so I can easily support all those Windows-customers of mine by using that same app..." can't be seen!
How strange...
Anyway, here's my side of the story:
I use a plain vanilla Opera browser to edit this Blog.
I haven't changed anything from the default "Blogger" things...
Maybe you have some funny issues in your system (since I just read you surf from a new Debian Testing install).
No, the bug is on your side, because there are some unexpected  !!!
Look in the source of the page:
"Debian boxes, Google Picasa. It is closed sources, it uses Wine, but it works well enough, and it is cross-platform, so I can easily support all those Windows-customers of mine by using that same app...
< br >Mono seems vicious..." etc.
Try Konqueror, try Epiphany, try Firefox, they'll all do the same.
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