On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:06:37 -0800, Beej wrote:

>> "Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".

> Funny... but Ubuntu is the only other distro I recommend to my
> friends. Even a non-technical artist I know uses it... it's pretty
> slick. If his only choice was Slackware, he'd be a mac user.
>
> On Google, Ubuntu has a rocks:sucks ratio of 42.0.

Meaningless. It's a "poll" conducted by drooling win-droids.

> Slackware's rocks:sucks ratio: 0.92.

See above.

> Those Ubuntu guys have done something right.

Perhaps they have, for the click-n-drool crowd.

> (Personally, I'm not switching. I like to do things the Slackware
> way.)

> User-Agent: G2/1.0

You do, huh?

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"Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".