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, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 08:25:27AM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
On 03.07.2025 04:47,fxkl4...@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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