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Another Xandros 2.0 Deluxe Review
JimLynch writes in about his review: "If we had to define Xandros 2.0 with one word, we'd pick 'usable.' This time around, the folks at Xandros have refined their product significantly and come up with something that makes Linux quite comfortable and easy to use, even if you're a total newbie to the OS. Obviously the Gentoo crowd won't be interested in this distro, but Windows users who haven't used Linux before or have had bad experiences with other distros will particularly enjoy this release. The time to begin the desktop migration to Linux might very well have arrived with Xandros 2.0." An earlier review was also favorable.
In this article, we have:
A DUPE - Well, not exactly, but it is an article covering the same topic that was recently mentioned. It even includes a link to the previous article, and the title even has the tagline "Another Xandros 2.0 Deluxe Review" (translation: you know everything here already, move along).
GENTOO ZEALOTRY - The author goes so far as to plug Gentoo Linux in his review, which is a completly unrelated topic, thereby furthering the proof that all Gentoo Linux users are evangelical elitists who believe that THEIR distro is above all others, similiar behavior to many religious zealots. News flash, we don't care. Go plug Gentoo somewhere else. But tell me, do the Gentoo leaders order their users to go door-to-door to the houses of people who use Debian and Slackware and try to get them to convert, like the Mormons do? Hell, even facist michael recogonizes that this Linux distro is not for the power user, with his tagline "from the linux-for-your-mom dept." Aren't you better than michael, JimLynch?
SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION - Here's the clincher. Notice the author of the linked article. Now note the submitter of the article to Slashdot. It's the SAME PERSON. Jim Lynch apparently is an editor at ExtremeTech who likes to link his stories directly to the Slashdot frontpage, and doesn't even take the extra time to write a different tagline. He just copies his intro paragraph over to the article summary! Now, you don't suppose that the ExtremeTech editors are paid by the hits their articles get? Hmmmmm...
I'm beginning to regret having ever paid $5 for a Slashdot subscription in order to see this crap 10 minutes before the other troglodytes can. What a crock of shit. If I ever see CmdrTaco I'm going to kick his ass and get my five bucks back.
ga ga goo goo
First, there was a plan: how to bring together the different development groups at work? My boss said there was a sort of tension he thought could be eased by some social interaction. Not easy. Almost all of the different development groups despised each other, each thinking its "art" was more important and eloquent than the others'.
There was the kernel extension developer group, coding mostly in C and some PowerPC and x86 assembler. They worked on making our PCI board work with Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, QNX, and Solaris. They worked "special hours," coming in at one and staying late, supposedly, until seven or eight at night. They enjoyed Red Bull and had a penchant for ThinkGeek t-shirts and cracking jokes about Win32 API calls and the dreaded Blue Screen of Death.
We had XML developers too. They worked on our website, documentation formatting, and simple apps to configure the driver software. They used HTML, XSL, JavaScript, and a bit of Java. They typically dressed casually, drank coffee and tea, and liked to work straight from the spec: no "Learn XSL in 30 Days" books were to be found in their cubicle farm.
Then we had the guys who wrote full-out UNIX apps. These guys and the products they wrote had been acquired from another company, and were the source of most of the tension: they'd never really been integrated into our group except that they were physically present with the rest of us. They all had beards or mullets or long, unwashed hair. Many wore suspenders or the afore-mentioned ThinkGeek clothes; some even had Penguin tatooes or small C app code tattooed on them. Their cubicle farm was known for the bleating laughter that exploded when one of them found a "silly" bug on someone else's code, and for the rotten, fetid stench that could only be compared to three-day-old shit reeking from inside a rotting corpse's abdominal cavity.
So, in order to get the guys to "know each other" my boss had asked me to organize a during-hours, alcohol-friendly party. My ideas ranged from a keg or two to live entertainment, AKA strippers. But as to what to get them to actually talk to each other in a human manner I had no clue. So I let it go til the last minute and decided to let my inherent creativity mull it over in the back of my head.
When the day of the party had arrived, the catering company brought in a few trays of lunch meat, chicken, pizza, and side dishes, I had picked up the kegs (all four) from the local brewery, and the big-screen TV and DVD were set up ready to blast the Matrix into the eyes and ears of my co-workers. The eagerness in the the air was encouraging and I thought that loosening up and smiles going on even now were a good sign. I even saw some of the guys who'd known each other previously begin to bunch up, bringing along the co-workers they knew from everyday work.
The first thing everyone did was hit the food line, loading up their plates and grabbing a cup for beer to wash it down with. A few approached me and thanked me for the food; it seems appeasing the belly really did tame the beast. After a few minutes of silence and eating and a few second and third courses, they guys were ready to sit down and be entertained. After asking if anyone needed anything else before the movie started, the lights went out and the Matrix began playing. I heard a few enthusiastic comments and jokes being told.
About half-way through the movie I noticed a lot of the guys, especially from the UNIX app group, were getting up and presumably going to the restroom. No suprise, as the second keg was history by now and the third was probably half-way gone. I also noticed some of the guys bumping into things and stumbling. Alcohol's the social lubricant, eh? Well, not long after, my bladder beckoned and I answered. As I made my way to the restroom, I had a self-satisfied smile on my face: my little plan was working, my boss would be happy, and it might even a Christmas bonus or a promotion (even if in title only).
Well, as soon as I
Yes, gentoo users do that all the time. You just got to find something to do while you're waiting for compiling to finish, you know.
Besides, someone's got to break the news to the debian crowd that no 2.2 is not! the newest kernel version.
Go back to your pussy MANDRAKE distribution for pansy faggots!