Re: touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-30 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 30/03/13 00:23, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > On 29 March 2013 20:03, Svante Signell wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I recently purchased an Acer S7, having both a keyboard and a touch >> screen. It is currently running Windows 8. Any chances of running Debian >> GNU/Linux on that box? I've heard rumours tha

Re: touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Bjoern Meier dijo [Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 12:30:36AM +0100]: > >> Seriously? "that's not what linux is for" What exactly is linux not > >> for? Jesus, I could vomit if I read this. Maybe or not Linux is - at > >> the moment - not capable for touch screens. Oh wait, Android is > >> capable to use touc

Re: touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2013-03-30 at 00:30 +0100, Bjoern Meier wrote: [...] > If this email was really supposed to be answered. Anyway. If you think > my email was abusive or down-playing maybe you should block me. Maybe > we should block all of those who doesn't use an "proper" language. It is a very clear rule

Re: touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-29 Thread Bjoern Meier
hi, 2013/3/30 Dmitrijs Ledkovs : > On 29 March 2013 22:44, Bjoern Meier wrote: >> hi, >> >> >> 2013/3/29 John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell : >>> REALLY? you have 30 days to return it. if you want unix and touchscreen >>> get an Apple. >>> >>> don't use debian haphazardously (without knowing

Re: touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-29 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 29 March 2013 20:03, Svante Signell wrote: > Hi, > > I recently purchased an Acer S7, having both a keyboard and a touch > screen. It is currently running Windows 8. Any chances of running Debian > GNU/Linux on that box? I've heard rumours that Ubuntu supports this > hardware, is that true? >

Re: touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-29 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 29 March 2013 22:44, Bjoern Meier wrote: > hi, > > > 2013/3/29 John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell : >> REALLY? you have 30 days to return it. if you want unix and touchscreen >> get an Apple. >> >> don't use debian haphazardously (without knowing full well what can happen / >> if it will wo

Re: touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-29 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 29 March 2013 22:19, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote: > REALLY? you have 30 days to return it. if you want unix and touchscreen > get an Apple. > This whole email was very out of line, and it's not how I would like Debian Community to be viewed as. Debian is Universal OS and ther

Re: touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-29 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 05:19:42PM -0500, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote: > REALLY? you have 30 days to return it. if you want unix and > touchscreen get an Apple. > > don't use debian haphazardously (without knowing full well what can > happen / if it will work) thinking you'll sav

Re: touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-29 Thread Bjoern Meier
hi, 2013/3/29 John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell : > REALLY? you have 30 days to return it. if you want unix and touchscreen > get an Apple. > > don't use debian haphazardously (without knowing full well what can happen / > if it will work) thinking you'll save time or money. that's not what

Re: touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-29 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
REALLY? you have 30 days to return it. if you want unix and touchscreen get an Apple. don't use debian haphazardously (without knowing full well what can happen / if it will work) thinking you'll save time or money. that's not what linux is for. doing so could easily leave you no-where, ev

Re: touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-29 Thread Stephen M. Webb
On 03/29/2013 04:03 PM, Svante Signell wrote: > Hi, > > I recently purchased an Acer S7, having both a keyboard and a touch > screen. It is currently running Windows 8. Any chances of running Debian > GNU/Linux on that box? I've heard rumours that Ubuntu supports this > hardware, is that true? I

Re: touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-29 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 29/03/13 21:03, Svante Signell wrote: > Hi, > > I recently purchased an Acer S7, having both a keyboard and a touch > screen. It is currently running Windows 8. Any chances of running Debian > GNU/Linux on that box? I've heard rumours that Ubuntu supports this > hardware, is that true? > I

touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-29 Thread Svante Signell
Hi, I recently purchased an Acer S7, having both a keyboard and a touch screen. It is currently running Windows 8. Any chances of running Debian GNU/Linux on that box? I've heard rumours that Ubuntu supports this hardware, is that true? Thanks :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ..