From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   Aragorn wrote:   
   > On Tuesday 22 May 2012 19:38, Adam conveyed the following to   
   > alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
      
   >> I don't mind newbies when   
   >> their questions are relevant -- after all, I was a newbie once, and   
   >> so was everybody else in both groups.  What I look for more is S/N   
   >> ratio.   
   >   
   > Well, that's sort of where the problem lies.  In my experience - and I'm   
   > sure many others here can vouch for that as well - the latest batch of   
   > GNUbies are rather ardent Windows refugees, who are only in refugee   
   > status because of the insecurities or TCO of Windows, but not because of   
   > Windows itself as an operating system design.  And so they're typically   
   > also bordering "trollism", constantly complaining about how GNU/Linux   
   > isn't exactly like Windows.   
      
   Okay, I can see where that would be annoying and lower the S/N   
   ratio... but I'm not sure which newsgroups you're referring to.  I   
   gather you /aren't/ referring to aol.mandriva and aol.mageia... I hope.   
      
   >> My news server, eternal-september, seems to have a.o.l.mageia back   
   >> to about New Year's.   
   >   
   > No, it was much sooner.   
      
   I was referring to their retention.  They only have aol.mandriva   
   back to December, and it's been around much longer than that.   
   Teranews has aol.mandriva back to 2005, but doesn't have aol.mageia   
   (yet).  There are separate Mageia groups on the (free) Gmane server,   
   and they have g.l.m.user back to September 2010.  I see a few   
   familiar usernames there among many unfamiliar ones.   
      
   >> Possibly the "best" distro   
   >> for me right now IMO might even be something else entirely.   
   >   
   > Only you would know that.  As long as you realize that Ubuntu and   
   > derivatives are things you best stay away from, coming from Mandriva. :p   
      
   I get the impression some of the Linux community looks down on   
   Ubuntu.  No, I wasn't thinking of *buntu. :-)   
      
   >> A while back, I learned a technique for quantifying subjective   
   >> decisions into objective ones, and I may end up using that method   
   >> here too.   
   >   
   > And now I have no idea what you're talking about. :p   
      
   I can explain it if you want.  Basically it uses one's own   
   priorities to determine the "best match", whether it's where to live   
   or what career to go into or which distro to use.   
      
   BTW I had to look through several Mageia repositories to find one   
   that had the final release of Mageia 2, but I'm downloading it as I   
   type this.  My internal HD now has four 20 GB partitions for four   
   different distros/releases, so I can try up to three others at a   
   time without affecting my "production" system.   
      
   Adam   
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