Debian (Score:0)
By
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on 2004.10.30 9:33
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The latest debian installers for sarge
have come a long way.
Debian's package update system is second to none.
Many interfaces are available for it
apt-get
aptitude
dselect
synaptic
kpackage
gnome-apt etc.
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Counterproductive and naïve (Score:0)
By
Anonymous Reader
on 2004.10.30 9:43
(#101029)
Hey, let's further (some of) the popular stereotypes
surrounding the various distributions. Let's simplify other people's
choices of distribution down to pseudo-teenage MTV-like standards.
Let's feed the trolls instead of encourage cooperation and the very
thing that has brought us this wonderful OS: Cooperation and
levelheaded competition. Yay.
(For the record: I use (not
entirely by choice, but by profession) various distributions and tend
to like most of them, even though I mostly run one of them at home,
mainly because of personal taste, not because of stereotype personality
features).
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Slackware (Score:0)
By
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on 2004.10.30 9:58
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Where is slackware on the list?
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ubuntu! (Score:0)
By
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on 2004.10.30 10:07
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www.ubuntulinux.org
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Sense of... (Score:0)
By
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on 2004.10.30 10:08
(#101033)
Humor, kids. It's supposed to be tongue in cheek. No need to get up in arms about it.
My only complaint is he left Slackware off the list!
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We don't count in binary... (Score:0)
By
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on 2004.10.30 10:55
(#101041)
We count in hex. Get it right.
And yes, Debian's installer does suck.
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What about people who make their own distro? (Score:0)
By
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on 2004.10.30 10:58
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What about people who make their own distro?
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Gentoo == LFS for the weak, lazy and/or stupid. (Score:0)
By
Anonymous Reader
on 2004.10.30 10:59
(#101045)
Gentoo has all the scripts, bits and peices, you have
to put it together like Ikea furnature. LFS, you have to cut down the
trees, process the wood, , design the furnature, then build it.
John Wayne would use *BSD anyways. (inset /. BSD/John Wayne is dead joke here)
But
of course, choice of a distro, (at least at first) falls into "follow
what your friends have done so they can help you" rule.
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Distro's are for whimps (Score:1)
Distributions are for whimps.
Obtain http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/li nux-0.01.tar.gz
and start building your kernel and system from there.
You'll learn Unix on the side.
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SuSE (Score:0)
By
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on 2004.10.30 11:12
(#101050)
i'm guessing the author of this article really doesn't know what they are talking about.
if
a general broad statement is made about an os, suse for example about
the placement of files i would like an explaination of what
specifically they mean.
there is many standards,opinions and other ways of doing things. init scripts in /sbin vs /etc/rc.d, xinetd vs inetd /opt vs /usr/local etc.. etc..
not to mention, you didn't even mention that yast is probably just as easy as click and run and twice as sexy ..
'msft core fonts' right in the online update, how cool is that?
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lol... (Score:0)
By
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on 2004.10.30 11:25
(#101055)
I like beer, horns and green eggs and I've been known to get aggresive and shove live cd's into people's pc.
So it's no wonder I use SuSE on my laptop and knoppix on my other box.
thnx, made me laugh.
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Who wrote this? (Score:0)
By
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on 2004.10.30 11:30
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I think it's quite obvious that this was written by a Mandrake fanboy. It's the only distro that didn't get bashed ...
and instead was pampered beyond belief. I thought this thing would say
things like, "Slackware/Debian/... users enjoy being able to actually
SEE linux." I had Mandrake installed once ... for one
day. Then I realized that it was just an operating system for people
who don't want to know just what operating system they're using. So you
know what, Joe Barr? Mandrake sucks. Yeah ... yeah ...
take that. You and your little distro can go live your happy little
lives. Just don't tell the other people how much the and *their* distro
sucks.
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distro says nothing!! (Score:1)
I think people choosing linux depends on what they want to do and how they want to get to where they are going.
Me, I have been a linux user since 95.
I use Xandros OCE for my desktop at home and office.
Lindows for my laptop, since it was the only distribution which did not have me pull my hair out configuring my wifi card.
I
use knoppix/Mephis/SuSE live CD when I travel on work to use the
Desktops in my remote location, since I cannot stand using Windows.
I
think this article is for making people chose a distro as per the
author wants, just like when people ask you to wear levis jeans even
though wrangler or eddie bauver jeans fits you best.
It is a
waste of time to write such articles, instead you should be asking
people to try out all the distributions and let them make up their own
mind as to what fits them best.
For me I do not want to mess
around with 3500 applications, I want KDE, openoffice, a good admin
tool to configure my desktop, a good tool to add software I want and
mozilla, opera, kmail, evolution, gaim and knotes.
Each user
should decide this themselves than try to stereo type them and make
them shy of certain distributions they might chose on their own accord.
These are my thoughts.
-GGR
Rajiv G Gunja
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Fedora ?!!! (Score:0)
By
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on 2004.10.30 11:50
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Not a word about Fedora ?
This news is a joke !
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Great idea for humor, but it went bad from there (Score:0)
By
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on 2004.10.30 11:51
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I'm a Linux geek that likes jokes, and it started off
okay, but then it lost its punch when it got more into the mundane.
"Knoppix users are known to be pushy" etc. It would have been more
funny and productive to have poked fun at side things that Linux users
like about their distribution of choice.
Like "Debian users love
their package manager so much they forget they could also compile from
source [the non-Debian way!]" etc.
Or poke a bit of side-fun at some of the tricker aspects:
"Red-Hat, the distribution famous for dependency hell"
And
Slackware being left out isn't a trivial thing, because at one time it
was the only distribution, and that shows that the person writing the
article doesn't know enough about all of the distributions before
having written this.
Nice try. Great idea, but it just didn't have enough geeky details to be worth reading it.
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Debian description... (Score:0)
By
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on 2004.10.30 11:52
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You've nailed this one right on... why people continue
to think that Debian is superior is beyond me. In the meantime, I'll
use Gentoo. It's a looser, more friendly dist than Debian ever will be.
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clever (Score:1)
Very clever and HUMOROUS - which I believe many people
have fail to comprehend. Look at the freakin' category, folks. Anyway,
this is funny because these distributions are well known enough to have
these traits in their users readily identifiable - just another example
of how pervasive the varying distributions of Linux are in the world.
Instead of bashing it, relish the fact that the author is able to
succesfully use this kind of humor!
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well (Score:0)
By
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on 2004.10.30 12:06
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insulting and not even slightly funny. wtf? at least try.
that was BORING!
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Flamebait (Score:0)
By
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on 2004.10.30 12:20
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This article must have been posted by a troll. Debian's testing branch is certainly NOT OUT OF DATE!!
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Odd (Score:0)
By
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on 2004.10.30 12:33
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never heard of these "distros" you speak of, there is only slackware
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Don't like his sense of humour? Make your own rev! (Score:1)
Smile - it's humorous! In the spirit of the article, here's my take on a few distros not covered...
Yellow Dog Linux
Listen dog's breath, you just can't believe how much fun and freaky
this PPC distro is until you watch some Macintosh bigot wrench his head
out of its socket and explode seeing YDL running on a Mac screen. ROFL!
Seriously, it's a fast distro with a nice interface and looks good on
your desk, especially when you can tell the boss "No sir, no Mac
computers around here sir!" Not to be confused with the Yellow Running
Dog of the Western Capitalist Hedgemony & Military Industrial
Entertainment Complex disto, better known as the Red Penguin distro
made in and for China.
SELinux
Stand at attention there, soldier!
If the idea of being so secure you can't cut and paste between user
windows, can't back up your system without feeling like a doctor's
finger is reviewing your prostate's health, and you need to know you
have Trusted Path, B2 Level of Trust, and all the other things that
'The NSA Knows Is Good For You' ©, then baby is this distro for YOU! A
virus or worm would not willingly go NEAR one of these puppies. On
the other hand, for 99.99% of us, enforcing the Bell Lapadula "star
property", no read up no write down, and other spook-geek talk of the
NSA's world will be as much fun and productive as inviting the local
chapter of the Hells Angels over for tea. Hey!
Nobody said that REAL security was easy or fun! Sir, yes sir! Sir, we
are secure, sir! Quick - tell me where to stand so I can be hit by the
falling safe and be put out of my misery!
Regards,
-Ocelot Wreak
"I figure you're here 'cause you need some whacko
who's willing to stick his finger in the fan. So who are we helping?" -
Keith Szarabajka
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forget someone? (Score:0)
By
Anonymous Reader
on 2004.10.30 13:21
(#101102)
hey! what about slackware!?!? were just as big as the rest of them, and uhh, yeah. were cooler too! :P
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Country Roads (Score:0)
By
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on 2004.10.30 14:10
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John Denver is singing about the western part of Virginia, not, as most people believe, West Virginia.
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Damn Small Linux (Score:0)
By
Anonymous Reader
on 2004.10.30 15:10
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What up? Damn Small is doing really well since they added the MyDSL on-line upgrade feature in 7.0.
With that, you can have the majority
of the latest apps and still stick with a fast, lean barebones desktop.
In my experience that's what most people making the switch find really
intriguing. Most of them are turned off by all the bloat in XP and
KDE3.0 is just more of the same. I mean I love KDE 3.0, but for an old
PC it's not a good idea and something that makes old hardware good
again is far, far better than just tossing it.
DSL is hardly an unknown either,
it's #10 and climbing at DistroWatch. I've used it on plenty of
machines that couldn't handle the full KDE setup of Knoppix. The really
sweet thing about DSL is you can almost always run the whole thing in
RAM. They say you need 128Megs, but I've done it with 64Megs. That's
sweet. I've saved old notebooks by converting them to DSL too.
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OpenBSD 3.6 released (Score:0)
By
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on 2004.10.30 15:15
(#101126)
The funniest part is where you got serious and put the "OpenBSD 3.6 released" link at the end.
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Brilliant - piss off 80% of Linux users at once (Score:0)
By
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on 2004.10.30 15:34
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( eom )
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Which distro's users have the best sex lives (Score:0)
By
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on 2004.10.30 16:47
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Why not report on the REAL issues of the day?
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Linux Users Highly Strung & Humourless Lot (Score:0)
By
Anonymous Reader
on 2004.10.30 17:01
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Get a life guys, Joe is making light!
Arn't we taking this a little to personally & preciously-Smegol????
As Mike says @ http://www.theinquirer.net/, "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story!"
Keep it up Joe & bring some of these airheads back down to earth.
Greek Geek on Debian Sarge.
*humour comes pre-installed!*
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gentoo users lazy? (Score:1)
what about windows users? yea i thought so.. gotta love ppl that talk out of their ass out of boredom.
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was this supposed to be funny? (Score:0)
By
Anonymous Reader
on 2004.10.30 18:55
(#101155)
seriously. if this kind of "humor" is the best we can do, is it any wonder the mainstream view us with disdain?
hint: if you think "user friendly" is funny, don't write "humorous" posts on the net.
sheesh.
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Distro Demographics (Score:0)
By
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on 2004.10.30 19:17
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Debian is for lazy people.
Slackware is for crazy folk.
Gentoo is for compulsive compilers.
Red Hat is for populists with bad hair.
Mandrake is for amateur magicians.
Suse is for herpetologists.
Nice going, Joe, but I bet you could've fleshed those out some more. You have real belly-laugh potential in some of your lines. :)
BTW,
I've used all the distributions I listed above and had a blast with
each. The least time I spent with each as my main "desktop" system was
3 months so I did get to know them. Some I used for years. I am
currently settled on one, and very lazy with it.
To those complaining about the article: lighten up. Or as Suse puts it, have a lot of fun!
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Slack? (Score:0)
By
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on 2004.10.30 20:41
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No Slackware? This article isn't even worth reading!
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Fedora (Score:1)
Granted it was a dirty trick of Red Hat to abandon the
home users, but Fedora really does have a lot to offer, and if you want
my opinion, is somewhat better than even Red Hat 9. I currently use FC
2 and have been very impressed with it.
But there are several other distros that are unfortunately missing from
this list, and most notably Slackware since it was (basically) the
first distro for Linux, but it would probably take too much bandwidth
to put up comments for all of them, but we should all remember that
regardless of what Distro you are using, the point is you are not using
MS, and that is what sets Linux apart.
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How about... (Score:0)
By
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on 2004.10.30 21:11
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Slackware??
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What about Conectiva? (Score:0)
By
Anonymous Reader
on 2004.10.30 22:39
(#101170)
Not much of a community for non-Portuguese speakers,
but it is a pretty solid distro overall. I started using it when I got
tired of the run-of-the-mill distros. I've tried Debian, Redhat, SuSE,
Mandrake, LFS, Gentoo, Slackware, Fedora, OneBase. All of them felt
shaky and fidgety, like traversing a rope bridge over a ravine.
Conectiva somehow felt different.
It's like Debian in a way that
it evolves slower than other distros but is a bit more up to date than
Debian and far more relaxed when dealing of license terms of included
apps.
J. Baller
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For your next article... (Score:1)
how about covering the important question of what the editor you use says about you? :-)
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One large group missing (Score:0)
By
Anonymous Reader
on 2004.10.31 7:58
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There is also a group who has tried them all and some more. I suppose RH is the first for most.
Personally I am now a MD user much because I feel they have had "moral" also during hard times with
ISO -images and the like.
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What if you just can't pick one? (Score:0)
By
Anonymous Reader
on 2004.10.31 17:38
(#101200)
I am currently using somewhere in the range of 15 to 19
different OS's simultaniously with not one repeated twice on any
machine or group of machines.
Some machines of course have more then
one like thew machine that tells the world it's XP but uses Co-Linux to
actually have a usefull and hardy OS under the hood.
I am using OS's
from CMP on my WORKING KayPro 4 (go look it up) Linux M68k and os7 on
some old macs, Redhat 5.2 on the cluster, Slackware on an old 386,
Xandros on a laptop for work, SUSE, ...
My most
promising is just a machine with the latest kernel and whatever
packages I put on it. No particular Distro used at any time.
What does this say about me?
YSRD
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Heck War starter. (Score:0)
By
Anonymous Reader
on 2004.10.31 18:30
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I use Debian for servers
Fedora or Mandrake for fun.
and Knoppix when any think stuffs up windows XP included.
Each has there place Debian more console configure tools handy for server with a 12" monitor that just refuses to die.
Note
I hope in the next few years I can drop a disto or two as Debian based
distros get the desktop end sorted out. This is only hope.
Reason for not running SUSE lack of iso access to burn it.
What is a distro unfussy who just want one that works.
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where is BSD ? (Score:0)
By
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on 2004.11.01 4:04
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kinda missing FreeBSD on the list
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Caldera/SCO's United Linux (Score:0)
By
Anonymous Reader
on 2004.11.01 8:52
(#101222)
Obviously you _live_ for satire and thought this
article was really funny. You are likely a former Novell employee or a
daily Groklaw reader, or both.
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