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On 3/7/25 17:10, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 3/7/25 15:08, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
>> On 03.07.2025 09:35, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 08:25:27AM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
>>>> On 03.07.2025 04:47,fxkl47BF@protonmail.com  wrote:
>>>>> i'm looking for a reader for pdf's and other media
>>>>> are there any running debian or other linux based distributions
>>>>>
>>>> "okular", "evince", "viewnior" to name a few.
>>> And xpdf.
>>>
>>>    apt search "pdf.*reader"
>>>
>>> yields (among a few false positives) a few possible hits I never heard
>>> of.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>> I've re-read original poster's message and now I think we all 
>> mis-interpreted their request.
>> I think they asked for a suggestion about hardware, like a tablet 
>> computer, or a handheld book reader capable of viewing PDFs and other 
>> media formats, with Debian or another Linux distro under the hood.
>> Probably these devices originally will run on Android or on some 
>> proprietary OS with locked bootloader and encrypted firmware, so the 
>> end user couldn't fight planned obsolescence.
>> Speaking from my little experience, making custom firmware will be 
>> incredibly difficult, also according to: https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile
>>
>> -- 
>>
>>   With kindest regards, Alexander.
>>
>>   Debian - The universal operating system
>>   https://www.debian.org
>>
> 
> Yes, I quite agree with the last post above; in reading the Subject 
> field of the thread, and, the text cited above, from the original 
> device, the original poster appears to be seeking something like a 
> kindle device - note - device, not software application - that will run 
> the Debian operating system -"readers running debian" - not "PDF viewers 
> running on Debian".
> 
> And,
> "
>  >>>> i'm looking for a reader for pdf's and other media
>  >>>> are there any running debian or other linux based distributions
> "
> 
> 
> "
> "So once you do know what the question actually is,
>   you'll know what the answer means."
> - Deep Thought,
>    Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
>    "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
>    A Trilogy In Four Parts",
>    written by Douglas Adams,
>    published by Pan Books, 1992
> "
> 


I believe that the problem is in the nature of ICT users' mailing lists 
- the need to balance tolerance of varying levels of competency in the 
English language, with often bad grammar, and thence, wrongly expressed 
descriptions ("I have Debian <version> running on <software application 
name>"), with the need for accuracy, including, especially, of problem 
descriptions.

Computers and software, including operating systems, are pedantic (other 
than AI, which produces too much garbage); humans are notsomuch, and, 
often lax in communication skills.

So, many misinterpretations and misconstructions occur, needing accuracy 
in communications, to try to minimise wrongful outcomes.

Otherwise, things can occur, like I observed, many years ago in a UNIX 
class, where a student entered the command
chmod .
.

The consequences  were not what was wanted.

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
..............

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readers running debian fxkl47BF@protonmail.com - 2025-07-03 01:50 +0200
  Re: readers running debian ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> - 2025-07-03 02:50 +0200
  Re: readers running debian "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2025-07-03 05:30 +0200
    Re: readers running debian <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2025-07-03 06:40 +0200
      Re: readers running debian "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2025-07-03 09:10 +0200
        Re: readers running debian tomas@tuxteam.de - 2025-07-03 10:00 +0200
          Re: readers running debian fxkl47BF@protonmail.com - 2025-07-03 13:30 +0200
            Re: readers running debian didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2025-07-03 14:10 +0200
              Re: readers running debian didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2025-07-03 14:20 +0200
              Re: readers running debian Frank Weißer <linux@weisser-ol.de> - 2025-07-03 20:20 +0200
                Re: readers running debian Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2025-07-03 22:10 +0200
                Re: readers running debian fxkl47BF@protonmail.com - 2025-07-03 23:00 +0200
              Re: readers running debian "Russell S." <rsstinnett@pm.me> - 2025-07-06 00:40 +0200
        Re: readers running debian Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2025-07-03 11:10 +0200
          Re: readers running debian Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2025-07-03 11:40 +0200
    Re: readers running debian Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2025-07-03 09:00 +0200
  Re: readers running debian Alif Radhitya <alif@radhitya.org> - 2025-07-03 07:40 +0200
    Re: readers running debian <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2025-07-03 08:50 +0200
  Re: readers running debian Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2025-07-03 09:10 +0200

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