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____/ ml2mst on Monday 15 September 2008 01:34 : \____
> Gregory Shearman wrote:
>
>> On 2008-09-14, ml2mst <ml2mst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Linonut wrote:
>>>
>>>> * High Plains Thumper peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>>>
>>>>> You are correct. One can put the truth underneath HQ's nose and he
>>>>> will deny it, which I did. Then he does his selective snippages and
>>>>> continues his moronic rants. After several attempts, it is just not
>>>>> worth it.
>>>> Hadrone claims to use Linux and to /love/ it. Yet he approaches almost
>>>> all discussion of it from a perverse and angry perspective. One example
>>>> is his discussion of the complexity of installing the NVidia video
>>>> binary using the Debian system.
>>>>
>>>> He tags it as being complex, which it is. But rather than then noting
>>>> that it has to be that way because of working a binary installation
>>>> mechanism that requires compiling source code against the code for the
>>>> existing kernel, which in turn requires keeping the Debian
>>>> infrastructure up-to-date, he simply decries it as being silly.
>>> It's not that complex to install the Nivida proprietary blob driver at
>>> all. I did it a couple of years ago, while I was using SuSE 9.2 and
>>> wasn't aware of thefact, that I could simply obtain it by using YOU
>>> (Yast Online Update). So this is what I did:
>>>
>>> * download the driver from the Nvidia website (a .run file);
>>> * chmod +x nvidia-blob-driver.run;
>>> * run nvdidia-blob-driver.run;
>>> * follow the instructions;
>>> * reboot;
>>> * change the Xconfig using Sax2 (SuSE Advanced X configuration);
>>> * restart X;
>>> * open mouth (saying ooooh), being astounded how the blob driver speeds
>>> up the entire KDE environment.
>>
>> On Gentoo this is the process:
>>
>> GentooPenguin# emerge nvidia-drivers
>>
>> If you want to install the ATI blob instead:
>>
>> GentooPenguin# emerge ati-drivers
>
> Interesting, yet Gentoo is considered to be
> one of the more "hard" distros.
>
> I bet, the only thing one has to do under Debian is fire up Synaptics,
> search for the damn thing ("nvidia"), select it in the list after the
> search and click apply.
>
> BTW if Debian is too complicated for him, then why didn't he just simply
> stick to Ubuntu?
>
> Hadron simply wants it to look more complicated than it actually is.
> What is that called: anti-advocacy or contra-advocacy?
I haven't tried Gentoo personally, but I hear that once you get all your things
set up and favourite programs installed, it's smooth computing. Some
off-the-shelf machines like Zonbu come with Gentoo preconfigured.
Have the Munchkins actually tried to install XP or Vista _from scratch_?
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