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From: Wolfgang.Schelongowski@gmx.de
Aragorn writes:
>The buzzword these days still /is/ Ubuntu, and Mint comes as a good
...
>So... That's where the MickeySoft drones go now. Most of my killfile
>entries are for alt.os.linux.ubuntu, and as of recently, I've also had
>to add a few for alt.os.linux.mint.
The _number_ of trolls is small, but they morph. You have to kill them
by Injection-Info|NNTP-Posting-Host|X-Trace|X-User-ID etc. because
some servers allow using arbitrary From:'s.
As to your question in a different article
| In fact, that's a good general question. For anyone reading this who's
| not using Mandriva/Mageia/PCLinuxOS, why did you choose the distro
| you're using? What are the strengths and weak points you've found as
| you've used it? Thanks in advance!
I started with SLS (60+ floppies), tried the Yggdrasil CD unsuccess-
fully, then SuSE 1.2 (3 CDs, I still have them). I also tried BSDI
unsuccessfully (bad support), but remained with SuSE for two reasons:
1) inertia
2) based in a non-English country (here: Germany) - software companies
in the USA have to learn that there are other countries besides the
USA with different languages and different customs (yes, I've been
burnt _severely_ before)
I've remained with SuSE/openSuse mainly for reason 1), but I'm
currently worried that no release 12.2 has turned up yet. Besides
they seem to be going the way of Ubuntu - targeting those who
merely want to drag and drool - and they seem to be disinterested
in German specialities - e.g. their Mediathek package doesn't work,
I had to install the one from heise.de. What's more, their ADSL
in 11.4 was broken in such a way that a normal user would never
be able to fix it, so I used 11.3. I'll see if I'll ever upgrade
to 12.[12].
Does anybody know what type of business the new owners of SuSE are?
I hope that they're not what we call Heuschrecken (locusts).
In the meantime (the last 18 years) I've tried
A) FreeBSD - 4.6 was blazing fast but the next release didn't really
support my hardware any longer. Besides, a few years ago I read
a thread in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc which was about kernel
panics when you removed a still mounted USB-stick. The opinion of
the regulars was "that won't be changed to `remount read-only'.
IOW FBSD targets only people who are permanently in sysadmins mode.
B) I played a bit with Mandr{ake,iva}, but not enough to have an
opinion about it.
C) I installed a variant of Ubuntu (Medibuntu?) in 2008 on a laptop
to edit videos recorded on TV. It works OK for that porpose.
D) I'm typing this on a 350MHz SuSE 6.4 which has been my workhorse
for practically all text oriented things for about twelve years.
It has a few (cough) non-standard add-ons, and it does DHCP,
DNS, and wwwoffle (WWW proxy) for every other local machine
attached to it. And I still start the GUI (KDE) manually, and its
internet presence is about once a fortnight[1].
E) I have tried other versions of SuSE but they were not really useful
to me because I didn't have ADSL then. Sing it: "Patches, I'm
depending upon you, son ..."[2]
F) I haven't really tried NetBSD, OpenBSD, Debian or Slackware yet,
but I may in the future.
[1] I'm getting pinged by 128.9.160.132 (jar.isi.edu) aka
203.178.148.19 aka pinger.* aka 129.82.138.38 aka 128.9.160.132 ...
every 11 minutes, but not today, on pentecost monday. Is it a
holiday today in Colorado?
Besides, pinging somebody every 660 secs after receiving the last
ping reply sometimes leads to 666 seconds between pings. Has
anybody seen an angry pack of peasants with torches and holy water
wielding pitchforks and crucifixes around Boulder lately?
[2] The refrain of a rather corny song from some 40 years ago. It
always comes to my mind when I hear/think about patches.
[12] NAF - not a footnote
--
The first entry of Sin into the mind occurs when, out of cowardice or
conformity or vanity, the Real is replaced by a comforting lie.
-- Integritas, Consonantia, Claritas
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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