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Why Mandrake is Too Cool for UnitedLinux
An anonymous reader says "Mandrake's lastest community (spam) newsletter contains their explanation as to why they won't join in on UnitedLinux. Besides the obvious geek-fun of rolling their own distro, they claim that the underlying idea of UnitedLinux is based on a flawed comparison to the Unix world of the 80's. " I think the whole UnitedLinux thing is lame- the distros that want
to be compatible already are. UL is just the 2nd tier distros trying to get attention and ink away from the "evil forces" in North Carolina. I'll just
stick to the best distribution and watch
the fun from afar ;)
first think I thought about when I saw that wrong link. :-]
:wq
This really is off-topic :)
Why bother posting your reply. The moderator who did this to you can't come back and reply to you (not directly on the page anyway) without removing their moderation. Just live with it. Everyone gets bad moderations sometimes.
Spam is unsolicited bulk e-mail with a specific commercial pitch or advertisement including a price.
Wrong, and spoken like a true spammer. (I hope you are not a spammer, but your definition echos almost precisely that which is used by some Spammers to justify their bulk emails).
SPAM is Unsolicited Bulk Email. Period.
Whether it is promoting Salvation from the Lord Our God(tm), Senator Hollings Reelection Campaign, or the Latest Penis Extention scam, it is SPAM.
However, opt in mailing lists are NOT SPAM because the Opt In process itself is an act of solicitation.
Of course, if a vendor or web site changes your selection from 'not opting in' to 'opting in' then, of course it is SPAM, because in fact you never did opt in, and they have deliberately miscategorized their lists in order to decieve.
Any bulk email that arrives without your having asked to be included on a list (e.g. for notifications, etc.) is SPAM. Period.
All of that having been said, it is my understanding that Mandrake's Newsletter is opt in, which means by opting in you solicited it and it is therefor NOT SPAM.
The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
I think the subject speaks for itself. Yes, debian does have a pretty steep learning curve. That was the first thing he commented on about debian back in 1997 when he was running the IPv6 network on campus at Virginia Tech. (go hokies).
:-)
However, when you get to the bottom of it all, debian has a very clean and modular type install. The base install is truly a BASE install. Unlike RedHat's base install of roughly 800 megs. And like many of the individuals who have posted, not everyone uses x86. If you can install debian on x86, you can basically install it anywhere on any platform (with also learning some new stuff about OpenFirmware if you are going to install it on PPC and or Sparc since those machines I have running debian as well).
But the fact that the baseline install of Debian is truly small and compact, you can really tweak the install of NECESSARY packages/applications/libraries that you need.
I for one do not know much about the hype behind UnitedLinux and don't really care for much of it. But the bottom line is that learning Debian isn't just learning about Linux, but you really get to learn about several other things during the process of learning it.
As Bruce Lee once said: "Be Formless, shapeless like water. Now if you put water into a cup it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle, you put it into a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash, be water my friend."
And that is what Debian is: water.