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Bootable Business Card Distro Needs Testing

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the so-if-you're-gonna-be-sober-tonight dept.

dbarry writes "Many here have read recently about the FSF membership program. The much-coveted membership card is to be a version of the Bootable Business Card distribution. We are curently looking for testing of our pre-2.0 releases and automated builds. The 2.0 release of the LNX-BBC (and, thus, the FSF membership card) will use the powerful GAR build system to compile nearly all software on it from source code. As such it has changed greatly since the 1.618 release from 2001." Is it ok to covet the card but not the membership? :)

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  1. lnx-bbc hates IE it appears :O) by FinalCut · · Score: 1, Troll

    while many of you probably hate IE as well I thought some might find this humorous.. if you visit the BBC home with IE a JS error occurs pointing to a permission error on the file at: http://www.lnx-bbc.org/iesuckssohard.htc Im glad they dont mind annoying some of the people that come to their site to help or learn more about what they are doing. I know, the haters are probably saying, if you are using Linux you wouldn't be using IE anyway - well when Im using a non-linux machine I will keep using IE until I see a compelling reason to switch (and a tabbed interface isn't one) or when my customers all switch to something else...

    1. Re:lnx-bbc hates IE it appears :O) by FinalCut · · Score: 0, Troll

      not trolling. Im using IE6 and I have my browser always show me JS errors. Look for the annoying yellow exlamation.. why the hell would I troll anyway? Or, better yet, try to visit the file listed in the iesuckssohard.htc url.. I get the javascript error on every page of the lnx-bbc site using IE 6.0.2800.1106

  2. Mark me as a Troll... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    ..but f*ck the FSF. I'd much rather support the EFF, at least they don't want to end up controlling* everything in the one true pure way that the FSF does. The FSF is turning into more of a religion every day.

    *The latest versions of the GPL allow them to switch the license on the software to future versions at their discretion. So.. since they write the license and have the power to do as they wish on the code nothing will stop them from "helping us for our own good".