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re all, On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 10:18:53AM +0100, Rob Myers wrote: > If the aim of puredyne is to be installed on any old machines people > have in the classroom or the lab and work straight away so that > people can just get on with making digital art then hardware > manufacturers refusal to respect users freedom will *sometimes* be > at odds with that. so far this has been a feature for dyne:bolic, which kept i586 cpu as a build target until today, avoiding inclusion of proprietary drivers. Aymeric stated years ago that these are not goals that pure:dyne (formerly based on dyne:bolic) can anymore share with dyne.org, assuming that most "media artists" possess high-end computers and they are the intended audience for pure:dyne. binary compatibility for 586 was the first discussion topic, later it became also an argument for the installation of nvidia and ati proprietary drivers. i still hope the pure:dyne developers team will evaluate a common position on these issues: art can be a relevant activity for different people in different social situations, an ambitious community effort as pure:dyne should pick a minimum common denominator and aim at broad accessibility as base for its requirements. i believe we should care to optimise the software rather than require expensive and closed hardware, else we'll risk to become an advertisement for the entertainment industry and its decadent waste of resources. ciao - -- jaromil, dyne.org developer, http://jaromil.dyne.org GPG: 779F E8B5 47C7 3A89 4112 64D0 7B64 3184 B534 0B5E -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknWI64ACgkQe2QxhLU0C16gWgCggggyy5wCWzaU0lWM67GIPZUN 6mcAoLzTkoheieMXacaXnkacScth8oqD =bHJs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- [email protected] irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne
