King Beowulf wrote:
> Manimoto wrote:
> > There is an article on Linux Today "Slackware 11--Grandfather Distro
> > Showing Its Age" that is trashing Pat Volkerding as well Slackware.
> >
> > I found I became embarrased for the "author" (sic!). I'm sure that
> > Linux Today was simply trawling for any articles on Linux - the editor
> > surely could not have reviewed it before adding it to newslist. It is
> > like reading some dirty little paragraph on a washroom wall. The
> > article actually reflects quite badly on Linux Today.
> >
> > Doesn't the author want to hide in a hole after posting his embarassing
> > thoughts?
> >
> > There really is no need to defend P.V. or Slackware because of the
> > article, it should be simply ignored...
> >
>
> I soured on Linux Today ages ago...articles stopped being useful and the site is just
> another ad portal.
>
> The author also can't possibly be a linux addict. From all the distros I've tried (5
> in teh last month), Slackware didn't force me to "emerge" all night, doesn't lock up
> when I pop in a PCMCIA card, doesn't need X to install, and doesn't come with a apps
> I don't need. openoffice and the rest are a simple download later. So ya got to edit
> a few text files, big whoop.
>
> 1. What's wrong with PV "iron fist"? I call that stability.
> 2. What's wrong with 2.4? means it'll run on these old laptops and desktops I refurbish
>
> As for for mouse probs, wtf? The only issue I ever had (xfree86, x.org) was with the
> scroll wheel and once when I mistyped the CRT vert freq. bah.
>
> ah rant rant rant. had a bad day so I'l shut up and stop preachin' to the choir.

This prick has been linked by OS News and Newsforge earlier in the
week.

Money is being changed hands perhaps??

Hopless troll

Old Man <bill@witch.lan> trolled:
> Realto Margarino wrote:

> > But these kinds of ad hominems hardly address the article. We
> > have yet to read the article, but if it is that bad, why don't
> > you attack the message, rather than the messenger?

> Perhaps because the messenger is so incompetent that the content
> of the message was nearly zero, and was indistinguishable from
> infantile wailing?

We read the message. The essence of the message was that he tried
several attempts to install and it failed without any indication as
to why it failed. And that criticism is valid. Furthermore, he
complained that the stock install was a 2.4 kernel. And that is a
valid complaint as well.

People who have lots of time to fuck around because they don't have
anything to do, love slackware. And some people love building ships
in bottles, as well. But if you wanted a real ship you wouldn't
handicap yourself by building it in a bottle because it would take
too long and too much effort to build. And this is the same story
if you wish to install slackware. If you have done it a few times,
it is relatively easy unless you have some new piece of hardware.
But if you just want to get a linux server up and running, then
slackware is probably the very last choice one would make. In fact,
if an IP professional needed to get a server up and running as fast
as possible and he chose slackware, then he should be fired.

cordially, as always,

rm

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:41:43 -0000, Rich Grise <rich@example.net> wrote:


>> I was going to say more, but don't see any point. What can you say
>> about a kid with a BA in computer science who can't install Slackware.
>>
>
> He's just an angry scriptkiddie. I think the most merciful thing we could
> do is ignore him.
>
> Cheers!
> Rich
>
>


I don't think he put much effort in trying to get it to run anyway. Had
his mind made up pretty much from the start.



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Realto Margarino wrote:

>> Realto Margarino wrote:
>
> We read the message. The essence of the message was that he tried
> several attempts to install and it failed without any indication as
> to why it failed. And that criticism is valid. Furthermore, he
> complained that the stock install was a 2.4 kernel. And that is a
> valid complaint as well.

Aww, shit! Is my 28 days up already?

--
Old Man

"I could be wrong again
I remember once in August 1993
I was wrong, and I could be wrong again" - Paul Simon

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 08:42:53 -0000, mabiddulph1@gmail.com
<mabiddulph1@gmail.com> wrote:


>
> This prick has been linked by OS News and Newsforge earlier in the
> week.
>
> Hopless troll
>


I'd been reading it from OSnews then and most comments there were to the
tune of "the author can think whatever he likes about Slackware but his
'style' of writing, making personal attacks and the sort of language used,
is unacceptable".

Usually osnews degenerates too much into the usual Win vs Lin flame wars
and name calling and pettiness that I'ld almost stopped checking it.

There is still hope.

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Kind Regards,
B. Hoffmann