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First Look At SuSE Linux 8.2
TheMadPenguin writes "Once again I find myself checking out the newest SuSE release, and to tell you the truth, I really enjoy it. My personal computer is running Slackware (yes, I upgraded to 9.0 immediately), and I wouldn't trade it for any other distribution in the world, but I've got to say is that SuSE is still at the top of their game. When you look at all the desktop distros out there such as Mandrake, Lycoris, and Red Hat, they all really have their endearing factors, but they all are lacking in one way or another.
Check out the entire review at MadPenguin.org. Complete with screenshots :)"
Psalm 137:7-9 :: The Message (MSG)
7 GOD, remember those Edomites,
and remember the ruin of Jerusalem,
That day they yelled out,
"Wreck it, smash it to bits!"
8 And you, Babylonians--ravagers!
A reward to whoever gets back at you
for all you've done to us;
9 Yes, a reward to the one who grabs your babies
and smashes their heads on the rocks!
Mark Franchetti, Nasiriya
The light was a strange yellowy grey and the wind was coming up, the beginnings of a sandstorm. The silence felt almost eerie after a night of shooting so intense it hurt the eardrums and shattered the nerves. My footsteps felt heavy on the hot, dusty asphalt as I walked slowly towards the bridge at Nasiriya. A horrific scene lay ahead.
Some 15 vehicles, including a minivan and a couple of trucks, blocked the road. They were riddled with bullet holes. Some had caught fire and turned into piles of black twisted metal. Others were still burning.
Amid the wreckage I counted 12 dead civilians, lying in the road or in nearby ditches. All had been trying to leave this southern town overnight, probably for fear of being killed by US helicopter attacks and heavy artillery.
Their mistake had been to flee over a bridge that is crucial to the coalition's supply lines and to run into a group of shell-shocked young American marines with orders to shoot anything that moved.
One man's body was still in flames. It gave out a hissing sound. Tucked away in his breast pocket, thick wads of banknotes were turning to ashes. His savings, perhaps.
Down the road, a little girl, no older than five and dressed in a pretty orange and gold dress, lay dead in a ditch next to the body of a man who may have been her father. Half his head was missing.
Nearby, in a battered old Volga, peppered with ammunition holes, an Iraqi woman -- perhaps the girl's mother -- was dead, slumped in the back seat. A US Abrams tank nicknamed Ghetto Fabulous drove past the bodies.
This was not the only family who had taken what they thought was a last chance for safety. A father, baby girl and boy lay in a shallow grave. On the bridge itself a dead Iraqi civilian lay next to the carcass of a donkey.
As I walked away, Lieutenant Matt Martin, whose third child, Isabella, was born while he was on board ship en route to the Gulf, appeared beside me.
"Did you see all that?" he asked, his eyes filled with tears. "Did you see that little baby girl? I carried her body and buried it as best I could but I had no time. It really gets to me to see children being killed like this, but we had no choice."
Martin's distress was in contrast to the bitter satisfaction of some of his fellow marines as they surveyed the scene. "The Iraqis are sick people and we are the chemotherapy," said Corporal Ryan Dupre. "I am starting to hate this country. Wait till I get hold of a friggin' Iraqi. No, I won't get hold of one. I'll just kill him."
Only a few days earlier these had still been the bright-eyed small-town boys with whom I crossed the border at the start of the operation. They had rolled towards Nasiriya, a strategic city beside the Euphrates, on a mission to secure a safe supply route for troops on the way to Baghdad.
They had expected a welcome, or at least a swift surrender. Instead they had found themselves lured into a bloody battle, culminating in the worst coalition losses of the war -- 16 dead, 12 wounded and two missing marines as well as five dead and 12 missing servicemen from an army convoy -- and the humiliation of having prisoners paraded on Iraqi television.
There are three key bridges at Nasiriya. The feat of Martin, Dupre and their fellow marines in securing them under heavy fire was compared by armchair strategists last week to the seizure of the Remagen bridge over the Rhine, which significantly advanced victory over Germany in the second world war.
But it was also the turning point when the jovial band of brothers from America lost all their assumptions about the war and became jittery aggressors who talked of wanting to "nuke" the place.
None of this was foreseen at Camp Shoup, one of the marines' tent encampments in northern Kuwait, where officers from the 1st and 2nd battalions of Task Force Tarawa, the 7,000-strong US Marines brigade, spent lo
I dedicate this post to the memory of the 1985 Kansas City Royals, and all their homosexual players.
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Idiot.
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I'm the top project manager at EA software, and I can tell you that this guy is a complete moron.
Oh, and to add to my list of qualifications, I also graduated from MIT with honors.
So don't start flaming me and telling me I don't know what I'm talking about.
This guy is a moron.
It makes sense for Mandrake and SuSE to release the moment they think a new version of KDE seems stable.
And RedHat feels they have to join the party.
It might matter less if KDE had an easy 'select your options and download what you want' style installer.
Don't you know that George Brett owns 35% of our company? Badmouthing the Royals (especially the team that won the world series) will get you nowhere but fired in this company. Which is exactly what you are. Er, fired that is. You're fired. Yep. Oh, just get out already. Tina will forward your things to the address you have on file.
Dammit, that didn't go well.
Fun fact: Former Royals player Danny Jackson owns a bowling alley in Kansas called Incred-a-Bowl.
No karma whore for you! Score: -1, Redundant
Seriously, why do the Reply button and Reply to This links keep disappearing?
They would rather be gassed by an evil dictator than lift a finger to do the just and right thing.
Bush could be seen as a dictator also. That does not make it right for others to invade your country.
Do you want the blood of 3,000 New Yorkers on your hands??
Fucking Iraq will not bring them back, in fact, making war when the rest of the world think you shouldn't will only bring you more trouble. Defend your country inteligently, don't try to macho Earth, it will not work for any of us. Do it subtedly.
Sincerely.
unfinished: (adj.)
That is an extremly long peice of fiction. Because let us not forget that that is exactly what it is...fiction.
Amazingly enough, in what has been proven true over and over again, most Iraqi civillians are happy that the US is there, and are happy that the US isnt listening to France and Germany that all they care about is the money Iraq owes them.
More and more Iraqi civilians are defecting all the time, and some have, in groups, left parts of the city so that the Iraqi Military wouldnt be able to use them as human shields.
Lets compare how many civilians were really accidentally killed by US. less then 10, and those could of been prevented if Iraw wouldnt of brought the fighting into the cities. How much were murderd cold blooded by Saddam Hussain trhoughout the years? How many were tourtered because they were 'traitors'? (meaning they said a bad sentence to a friend, that was interperted incorrectly) How many were killed by Iraqi's in an attempt to make the us look bad? How many were kileld because the Iraqi Troops shot artilary shells and dont give a crap where they land, even if its in a middle of a huge market!
The US missles have been shown to take out things like tanks, without even damnging the bridges the tanks were hidden under. Also, the US has been successfully bombing weapon factories without harming any nearby building!
There have been alot of propoganda of pictures of injured civilians caused by the US. Well how about some proof that they were caused by the US?
Percentage-wise, it is much more probable that they were cause by Iraqi troops. And the fact that all of these images come from extremly biased sources (we all heard of frace reporting of civillian casualties before the war even started, and the arab supporting websites are far from reliable). Did you even wounder why you do not see images of American soliders waving to farmers as they drive pass them? You will only find these types of pictures if you dig deep under the propoganda and find some more reliable sources.
And what about the US casualties? Well, at last count, 1 casualty was because of actual Iraqi Fighting. the others were cause by mistakes and malfunctions with the technical aspects (like chppers etc...), and also, another group (around 20 as i recall?) were murdered when Iraqi Troops pretended to surrender, and the US troops actually believed them, and didnt want to kill unarmed people. The fact is, that the US has spent alot of money, on making this war as quick, and as non-bloody as possible. With extrmely expensive technology, that enjures (or atleast tries to) the protection of the American soliders, and allows the US to do things like blow up weapon bunkers and only the weapon bunkers with minimal side damadge.
YES! this is were the multi-million dollar missles are worth every penny for the life of every innocent civillian! This is why the Iraqi civillians are constantly supporting the US!
I do NOT respect the other countries that have not joined, claiming that they want 'peace' and blaming the US for oil, when anybody that actually knowns anything, knowns how much money the current Iraqi Gouverment owes some of these European 'Companies' (aka gouverments). And when Bush replaces the gouverment there, OH NO! there goes a few hunderd billion down the drain. Well thats just too bad that those countires care more about thier money rather then the lives of a country being opperesed by a cruel, mad, tyrannical leader, who (as posted above) has cold bloddedly murdered his own civillians for no reason. I respect the US and its brave soliders for spending a huge amount of money on actually making a difference in the world (this is the second bad arab gouverment, how many left to go?). And for the brave soliders that fight for the freedom of a people they do not even know.
Saddam Hussain and his supporters have no respect for human life! They murdered civillians on a regular bases a long time before the war started! He deserves to die a slow death, and rot in hell.
Amen
I think you have have not been reading the news. People getting arresting for wearing "Give Peace a Chance" t-shirts or old ladies carrying anti-war banners. People are being arrested for voicing critical opinion of the war.
Freedom and free speach were the first victims of this (probably the first of many) oil war.
I love stacking my barbecues in the shed at the end of summer - you can't beat a bit of grill on grill action.