Hi, 4chan! *waves*

I've been using Debian 'testing' as a desktop (and a netbook for that matter) for many years now. I used Ubuntu for about 4 years at home and with my business clients (I'm a network engineer), roughly from v6.10 -> 10.04 but switched back because of the "will not fix" developer mentality to those who wanted functional packages from an LTS release. There was always something major that was broken, always with the carrot-on-a-stick, "Just upgrade to the latest release and use PPA from JoeSchmoe" answer when you just wanted to use your computer. It kept me for a while, but it got reeeeal tiring.

Debian has always "just worked" on my desktop. It's also a great LTSP sever, serving my kitchen and livingroom thin clients. With all of the good stuff that the Ubuntu/Canonical folks do getting backported to Debian, I feel like Debian testing is "Ubuntu Stable".

(in testing):

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thedarkener@c64:~$ steam /home/thedarkener/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by /home/thedarkener/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6) /home/thedarkener/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by /home/thedarkener/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6) /home/thedarkener/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by /home/thedarkener/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6) /home/thedarkener/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by /home/thedarkener/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6)
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I saw the above post regarding the i386 libs and I was sure that I had already installed them previously (and confirmed with the following:)

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thedarkener@c64:~$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk ia32-libs-sdl
Place your finger on the fingerprint reader

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package ia32-libs-sdl
thedarkener@c64:~$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
ia32-libs is already the newest version.
ia32-libs-gtk is already the newest version.
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Any ideas?

Perception causes me to believe that this "feature" is a double-edged sword. On the one side, it adds to the whole "social networking" thing. Find friends, recognize friends, connect with friends.

On the other hand, it is a massive crowdsourced facial recognition system that is incredibly difficult to stay away from, even if you refuse to be a part of Facebook (IIRC people can tag you in a picture by typing in your name). It's a f*cking privacy nightmare.

But what do you have to hide, huh? *grin....sigh*

Seriously. I think all the Slashbots are just excited to repeat the great word.

I know who he is. If Alan Cox said, "McDonald's makes the worst hamburger", would you repeat his testimony like the universal truth you believe it is too?

What just one person thinks? Think for yourself. Jeebus.

'The man was arrested by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on the island of Saipan'

So lemme get this straight - the Department of Homeland Security spent taxpayer money finding and arresting a software pirate...

As I can't find it worth while to keep transferring my contacts, calendar and everything else between cell phones every time I upgrade, I opted to use the same compatible device that I've been using since 1997.. It's hard to beat a Palm Pilot when there was (and still is to a degree) such a HUGE community of developers. I even bought a licensed copy of DateBk6 about a year ago, those guys are still going strong.

Wrote a full article a while back about it here.

Oh puulease. I still use a Palm Tungsten C (yes, a Palm PDA - not even a phone!) every day. If someone ridicules you for it, they're a fucking hippster. Who the hell cares what other people think? This crowd should be used to that kind of stuff, anyway.

Can your apps run in Wine under Linux? This might be a very feasable "workaround". I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet.

How is this any different than allowing police to break into homes and install covert cameras? Do they already allow this?

Can you leave your editorial comments to the comments section please?

It's a way for entrepreneurs to get funding for their creative ideas and projects. Usually you'd have to find an investor. To answer your question as to why it's appealing to invest in a project that may or may not succeed, just ask a professional investor. It's the thrill of being a part of a great idea and helping it get off the ground.

Nobody is frightened to pay money for something if it's not made by a benevolent dictator. If it's good enough to warrant paying for, it *really* doesn't matter what platform it's on.