- OpenLook
- OpenMotif
- OpenTransport on MacOS
- SCO OpenServer
- HP OpenMail
- HP OpenView
You couldn’t throw a ball without hitting something branded as “Open” in that era.
You couldn’t throw a ball without hitting something branded as “Open” in that era.
Stable means different things in different contexts.
Debian being stable is like RHEL being stable. You’re not jury talking about “doesn’t crash”, you’re talking about APIS, behaviours, features and such being assured not to change.
That’s not necessarily a good thing for a general purpose desktop, but for an enterprise workstation or server, yes.
So it’s not so much that Debian would replace Fedora, it’s the Debian would replace RHEL or CentOS. For a Fedora equivalent, there’s Ubuntu and the like.
Debian Stable.
It’s always the answer to "what distro do I want to use when I care about stability and support-ability.
Coincidentally, that’s what using it is like, too. :)
When you say that the keyboard works: do the brightnesss, mute and volume controls do what they’re supposed to do?
HP laptops–at least business-grade ones–are notorious for sending nonstandard scan codes and requiring custom drivers.
If someone could port AUX’s UI, that would be perfect.
And as a fellow System 6/7 fan, it’s love, not masochistim. Long live the spatial Finder!