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UserLinux Releases First Beta
MohammedSameer writes "According to DesktopLinux, UserLinux has released their 1st beta CD, based on Debian. The project, led by the long-time open source advocate Bruce Perens, aims to provide businesses with freely available, high quality Linux operating systems accompanied by certifications, service, and support options intended to encourage productivity and security while reducing overall costs."
Most Slashdotters should love the fellow who did this quiz: http://ex-parrot.com/~chris/moral.html
Don't blame me -- I voted for Roslin.
> sarcastic comment about Bruce getting +funny.
um, it wasn't sarcastic, and Bruce didn't get +funny, when I wrote it. He was modded +1 Informative. I never saw a "first post" moronic post marked informative before! I was impressed.
I don't understand what your problem is. Yes, first of all, being Bruce is big. And you are not him.
No problem here... where's the problem?
Sorry. I don't buy that "being Bruce is big", and therefore every word he says is "interesting". I personally don't feel that every comment spoken by "important" people are, by default, interesting (or funny!) Frankly, if the leader of the Free World was on Slashdot crying "first post!??" I wouldn't want to read it. Others may mark it up, to show how immature even a huge leader can be. And I figure that's why Bruce got modded up. (It's "interesting" to see someone like Bruce Perens act like a moron! And the bigger they are, the more interesting it is.)
I certainly don't think Bruce is big. Quite frankly I have no opinion on the man - he's done nothing noteworthy from my perspective. So it shouldn't be surprising that I would be impressed that he's modded up for imaturity.
I am quite happy being me; no need being jealous of not being Bruce Perrins - he means zero to me.
Second, it is modded funny...
no, it was modded "informative". We've been over this!
Now, a side-effect of it being funny is that Bruce's karma improved, and that makes you jealous?
No, once again, it was "informative".
I believe the term I used was "impressed". If being impressed equates to jealousy, that's news to me.
finally, note that +1 funny doesn't actually improve your karma (see slashdot faq's for more).
Ref: also read slashdot faqs, and how they ask you to not fret too much about the "karma"..
I told you, it wasn't modded as "funny". Get your undies out of a bunch. Maybe if YOU realized how slashdot worked, you wouldn't get all worked up over me being impressed. Articles get posted. Losers write "First Post". Moderators mod them down so other readers don't need to look at "First Post" messages. Sometimes items get modded up as Interesting. Maybe by the time you look at it, it's ben changed to "Funny". Ever think that maybe YOU don't have this figured out? Because if you did, you wouldn't have gone wacko in your post!