From: TJ@noneofyour.business   
      
   (Went fishing for a week, sans Internet, so I'm behind in my reading.)   
      
   On 07/29/2012 09:21 PM, Moe Trin wrote:   
   > On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in   
   article   
   > , Adam wrote:   
   >   
      
   >> Debian, Gentoo, Arch, Fedora, CentOS, and Slackware.  I figure those   
   >> are about as different as popular distros get.   
   >   
   > Mighty big sandwich you've got there.   Mentioned, Fedora is the   
   > beta for RHEL, and CentOS is a public domain version of RHEL.   
   >   
   Mentioned before (I think) I tried Fedora several years ago. Didn't care   
   for it - too bleeding edge for my taste. And I was on dialup at the   
   time, so couldn't keep up with updates as I should have. I was MUCH   
   happier when I returned to Mandrake. (Yep, it was THAT long ago.) A   
   friend of mine, the one who had been using his broadband connection to   
   download install CDs for me, said he wasn't surprised. He said, "Some   
   people are just Mandrake people."   
      
   >>> And Marg is a veggie-freak.  A 6 inch pot of kitty grass (goose   
   >>> grass, oats, and similar) can be devoured over night - and unlike   
   >>> Smokie, she's not barfing it back up - the stuff is gone without a   
   >>> trace.   
   >   
   >> I think that's unusual for a cat.  Most of ours left plants alone.   
   >   
   Grass is supposed to help a cat's digestion. I don't know the details of   
   how.   
      
   > Our first cat trained us to have a grass planter available. The   
   > females have all liked it, the males somewhat less so.  I think it's   
   > a cat-specific type of thing, perhaps related to availability - it's   
   > not that they ask for it by name.   I notice the various pet stores   
   > carry a pre-prepared product (typically a 4 x 6 x 2 inch plastic   
   > container filled with dirt and seeded - just add water) at rip-off   
   > prices (around $2 but it's a one-time use, and that gets quite   
   > expensive), and a few carry the seed ("Cosmic Kitty Herbs" is barley,   
   > oats and wheat seed - 4 oz for $2.50, "Nibble-Licious" only lists it   
   > as oats, but is 5 oz for about the same price - TJ may laugh at those   
   > prices but the feed stores here sell hay, not seed). I've got six pots   
   > that I grow in rotation - a pair every other week roughly, but the way   
   > Marg is going through it, that's going to change.  We do have some   
   > indoor plants, but the cat's seem to ignore them.   
   >   
   >          Old guy   
   >   
   I can get you a ton of oats for around $150, (Hmm. Haven't checked this   
   year's price yet. With the dryness, it could be MUCH higher.) but you'll   
   have to take care of the shipping.   
      
   TJ   
      
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