can i ask something regarding debian?

[scott]

On 10/27/2011 07:12 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 27 October 2011 21:14, Doug<dmcgarrett at optonline.net>  wrote:
>> On 10/27/2011 04:14 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 04:00:27PM -0400, Doug wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Debian is politically committed not to have anything even remotely
>>>>     connected to something proprietary, or developed by any entity that
>>>>     might have connections to something commercial.
>>>
>>> This is an exaggeration of Debian's position to the point of
>>> misrepresentation; Debian is certainly committed to free software, but
>>> that doesn't exclude commercial involvement.  Let's keep it accurate!
>>>
>> Oh, yeah?  Let's see you get Thunderbird or Firefox on Debian.
>
> You certainly can. The standard Debian builds are de-branded, because
> the Mozilla organization's terms of use for the icons, artwork and
> name do not comply with the Debian Free Software guidelines, so you
> get the same apps but called "Iceweasel" and "Icedove". (Seamonkey is
> "Iceape".)
>
> But you can either install the Mozilla builds, or get them from
> alternative repositories - I've done it, it's not hard.
>

I can't think of too many things that aren't able to be installed 
manually. If it runs in *nix, it will generally run in all *nix distros. 
You may have to add dependencies, edit the makefiles, compile it, etc, 
but you can probably get it going if your hardware handles it. Solaris 
and a few other propietary distros may make it a little difficult, but 
it can be done.