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Debian 3.0r2 Released
FrankoBoy writes "As announced on DistroWatch, Debian 3.0r2 has been released this weekend, with some security issues fixed... and Rock 'n Diamonds dropped because of license problems. Here's the official announcement. This release had been slowed by an attack on Debian boxes discussed Friday."
meeples. yeah.
ownz yo' ass!
Gentoo Linux is an interesting new distribution with some great features. Unfortunately, it has attracted a large number of clueless wannabes who absolutely MUST advocate Gentoo at every opportunity. Let's look at the language of these zealots, and find out what it really means...
Gentoo makes me so much more productive.
Although I can't use the box at the moment because it's compiling something, as it will be for the next five days, it gives me more time to check out the latest USE flags and potentially unstable optimisation settings.
Gentoo is more in the spirit of open source!
Apart from Hello World in Pascal at school, I've never written a single program in my life or contributed to an open source project, yet staring at endless streams of GCC output whizzing by somehow helps me contribute to international freedom.
I use Gentoo because it's more like the BSDs.
Last month I tried to install FreeBSD on a well-supported machine, but the text-based installer scared me off. I've never used a BSD, but the guys on Slashdot say that it's l33t though, so surely I must be for using Gentoo.
Heh, my system is soooo much faster after installing Gentoo.
I've spent hours recompiling Fetchmail, X-Chat, gEdit and thousands of other programs which spend 99% of their time waiting for user input. Even though only the kernel and glibc make a significant difference with optimisations, and RPMs and .debs can be rebuilt with
a handful of commands, my box MUST be faster. It's nothing to do with
the fact that I've disabled all startup services and I'm running
BlackBox instead of GNOME or KDE.
...my overclocked AMD eMachines box from PC World, and apart from the third-grade made-to-break components and dodgy fan...
You Red Hat guys must get sick of dependency hell...
I'm too stupid to understand that circular dependencies can be resolved by specifying BOTH .rpms together on the command line, and that
problems hardly ever occur if one uses proper Red Hat packages instead
of mixing SuSE, Mandrake and Joe's Linux packages together (which the
system wasn't designed for).
All the other distros are soooo out of date.
Constantly upgrading to the latest bleeding-edge untested software makes me more productive. Never mind the extensive testing and patching that Debian and Red Hat perform on their packages; I've just emerged the latest GNOME beta snapshot and compiled with -09 -fomit-instructions, and it only crashes once every few hours.
Let's face it, Gentoo is the future.
OK, so no serious business is going to even consider Gentoo in the near future, and even with proper support and QA in place, it'll still eat up far too much of a company's valuable time. But this guy I met on #animepr0n is now using it, so it must be growing!
Take it to metamod, or use your modpoints yourself. Deal with it, I moderated it up anyway happy?
$ emerge -p xfree
...done!
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies
[ebuild R ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
no yuo!
erm... unstable out of date ? ;)
sodipodi 0.32.uus.20031012-2 testing
sodipodi 0.32.uus.20031012-2 unstable
openoffice.org 1.1.0-2 testing
openoffice.org 1.1.0-2 unstable
libgnome2-0 2.4.0-4 testing
libgnome2-0 2.4.0-4 unstable
doesnt seem out of date to me
Smile... tomorrow will be worse.
Yes, thank you. My points expired last night or I would've myself. Again, thanx.