RedHat comes out with an OS with over 2,000 documented bugs by the public. Why should anyone get Linux if it has more bugs than Windows?
Well, for a start, it doesn't. The most trivial look at bugzilla.redhat.com would have told you that. But then you would have lost a valuable opportunity to push your ideological barrow.
Read. Think. Possibly Post. Do no alter this order.
Wow... what's this? Another clueless story on Red at Linux where Debian fans can say something not very insightful and get scored up? Yahoo.
Quite so.
It looks like alan got a bit short someone's particularly useless bug report (Hint: It's bugzilla, not whine-zilla) and somebody else decided it was time for a jihad,./ style. Dull, dull, dull.
This is another case of a manifestly unresearched and innacurate story, released on a whim without a thought of due journalistic process. Most dissapointingly, it's come from CmdrTaco, who really should know better by now. And inserting "*grin*" into the article entry makes it no less snide. RH staff have every right to be annoyed at this unsubtle dig.
BTW, for what it's worth: I love RH, I love Debian (apt rules) and I love BSD. They all rock, and I use all of them!
I've found precisely two - a trivial bug in the Powertools version of junkbuster, and some (perhaps) excessively zealous permissions in mysql. Everything else is fine for me, and I've got far too much installed!
Crivens, CT, we all know you're a Debian fan, so please give it a rest.
Unfortunately, debian doesn't use apt for selecting packages during installation, but hangs on with six floppies and dselect. Yuck!
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Whatever happened to Gardens Point Modula-2, from the Queensland University of Technology? I remember getting a copy of it with an old Infomagic linux pack.
>I agree - the humour isn't the story, but the > reaction. Which is really funny - I have never > seen so many people so upset over the Swedish > Chef filter.
The point is that not only is the humour non-humorous (Swedish Chef filter! Hyuk! It's just like 1991 again!) but that a worthy and interesting story has been for the most part ignored (except by The Usual Suspects) because of the puerile intro.
This should really be resubmitted - and I'll say it again:
Slashdot/needs/ some real subediting. This sort of crap is unacceptable.
Leave the April Fools jokes for actual jokes. Actual content should be sacrocant.
It is actaully a reasonably good idea although I can't see how it could have taken so long to implement it. Now it is quite possible that this has been done before, but it certainly isn't just symbolic links!
Odd. I searched your link (your own posting history), and am inexplicably not desiring at this moment to strangle CmdrTaco, hoist the Stars And {strips|bars], and sing the chauvanistic anthem of choice.
Get to the point, please. A sound-bite, if you will.
Actually, it sounds (superficially) like rsync more than it does like symlinks alone.
[while I'm here and mentioning it, check out rproxy, which is truly qoole. You know how to use google.]
I think I know where the developers are coming from. In fact, I think it demonstrates one of the finest qualities of the "open-source" community and method - less reinventing of the metaphorical wheel. And no, GUI Linux installers don't count.
Because they're demonstrating that stuff is actually running on silicon proper - otherwise it's just be showing off some other manufacturers 3D hardware.
Please, keep in mind that this is/not/ meant to be flamish in nature. If it so appears, I shall strive for greater subtlety in future.
Well beyond the point that this is oldish news, and has appeared on/. already, this item is further proof that/. really, really needs some kind of sub-editor to catch these things. After all, the banner says "News for Nerds", and any organ which deseminates news has to take care with such matters to ensure that they can continue to be taken seriously.
A phrase like "Hurd is Object Oriented, unlike Linux, so it may be a superior system in the long run." is so manifestly ambiguous and potentially contentious that it's a crying shame to see it writ upon my screen so. Time for a rethink that doesn't involve just hacking Slash, chaps.
On-topic: HURD does indeed look tres groovy, and I'm looking forward to giving it a try. I wonder if it runs on VMWare? I guess their's only one way to find out...
Please, keep in mind that this is/not/ meant to be flamish in nature. If it so appears, I shall strive for greater subtlety in future.
Well beyond the point that this is oldish news, and has appeared on/. already, this item is further proof that/. really, really needs some kind of sub-editor to catch these things. After all, the banner says "News for Nerds", and any organ which deseminates news has to take care with such matters to ensure that they can continue to be taken seriously.
A phrase like "Hurd is Object Oriented, unlike Linux, so it may be a superior system in the long run." is so manifestly ambiguous and potentially contentious that it's a crying shame to see it writ upon my screen so. Time for a rethink that doesn't involve just hacking Slash, chaps.
On-topic: HURD does indeed look tres groovy, and I'm looking forward to giving it a try. I wonder if it runs on VMWare? I guess their's only one way to find out...
EtFB? Mein Gott! AICSA is EVERYWHERE! Aieeeeee! On Topic: I'm probably going to get a copy. You can't get too much documentation, though I can also reccomend the following links: http://netizen.com.au/services/training/modules/pe rlintro/materials.html http://netizen.com.au/services/training/modules/pe rlinter/materials.html http://netizen.com.au/services/training/modules/pe rlcgi/materials.html
Ah - I see. Sorry if I seemed to be casting aspersions:P
Yes, I quite agree for the most part. I do have one or two niggles with the idea, but my brane is too tired to formulate thoughts with any clarity at the moment.
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This is exactly what happened with gcc 2.96 (We can't just put gcc 2.91 in 7.0! We'll be behind!)
In fact, no. The most trivial inquiry into the whys and wherefors would have revealed this. But you had to post quickly, or you'd be behind!
And this is why distro-flamewars suck - they're a flameware, with all the bad rhetoric and circular arguments that implies.
I wonder if anybody has read the following, yet?
http://lwn.net/2000/1005/a/rh-tools.php 3
This explains the whole story - looks like the left hand of the GCC crew doesn't always know what the right hand is doing.
Anybody who's been following LWN will have been aware of this for several days now.
It seems to me that RH had to make an ugly compromise, and just bit the bullet.
Seems that they've updated the post somewhat. Those shady bastards.
Do you have a copy of the original text? Corrections like that must be conspicuosly noted - not to do so is Tres Naughty.
Quit being an idiot and running this bullshit.
Download FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE and have a nice day. Fuck all this gay shit.
Ah. So not only are you a BSD bigot, you're also yet another IRC obsessed posturing homophobe. You're not doing the Daemon any favours, you know.
But thanks for sharing your opinion.
I'm not trolling, I am challenging the Linux community to respond the same way to Red Hat as it did to Microsoft when Windows 2000 came out.
What? You mean with hyperbole and vitriol? Certainly can't see any round here!
Spot the invisible sarcasm tags.
Now redhat is loaded with bugs and "its to be expected as it grows"! rubbish.
Except, of course, that it isn't. You'd have known that, if you'd been paying attention.
If MS cant make mistakes, why dont you bash
redhat too?
Because there's nothing to bash RH about in this instance? How inconvenient!
because linux users are too damncool. whatever.
Gad. It'a wonder you manage to post anything at all, drowning as you must be in ennui.
RedHat comes out with an OS with over 2,000 documented bugs by the public. Why should anyone get Linux if it has more bugs than Windows?
Well, for a start, it doesn't. The most trivial look at bugzilla.redhat.com would have told you that. But then you would have lost a valuable opportunity to push your ideological barrow.
Read. Think. Possibly Post. Do no alter this order.
7.0 should run fine, according to Redhat's site, but now it's apparently full of holes...
There's a word in the previous sentence which you should have a think about.
Wow... what's this? Another clueless story on Red at Linux where Debian fans can say something not very insightful and get scored up? Yahoo.
Quite so.
It looks like alan got a bit short someone's particularly useless bug report (Hint: It's bugzilla, not whine-zilla) and somebody else decided it was time for a jihad,
This is another case of a manifestly unresearched and innacurate story, released on a whim without a thought of due journalistic process. Most dissapointingly, it's come from CmdrTaco, who really should know better by now. And inserting "*grin*" into the article entry makes it no less snide. RH staff have every right to be annoyed at this unsubtle dig.
BTW, for what it's worth: I love RH, I love Debian (apt rules) and I love BSD. They all rock, and I use all of them!
Tried to compile a 2.2.17 kernel to get rid of a lot of the crap that comes by default with RH that I just don't want.
With all kinds of wacky warnings and errors, that
failed.
No biggie, figuring something was just wacky, I
went back to 2.2.16 that had been working
so well for me in RH6.2.
That will compile, but when I do "make modules",
there is some other wacky "pasting
token" errors, and it fails.
Read the release notes - that's what they're for!
A trivial hack of the kernel Makefile to select kgcc and you're right.
I've found precisely two - a trivial bug in the Powertools version of junkbuster, and some (perhaps) excessively zealous permissions in mysql. Everything else is fine for me, and I've got far too much installed!
Crivens, CT, we all know you're a Debian fan, so please give it a rest.
Unfortunately, debian doesn't use apt for selecting packages during installation, but hangs on with six floppies and dselect. Yuck!
Whatever happened to Gardens Point Modula-2, from the Queensland University of Technology? I remember getting a copy of it with an old Infomagic linux pack.
I'm sure it's still around.
>I agree - the humour isn't the story, but the
/needs/ some real subediting. This sort of crap is unacceptable.
> reaction. Which is really funny - I have never
> seen so many people so upset over the Swedish
> Chef filter.
The point is that not only is the humour non-humorous (Swedish Chef filter! Hyuk! It's just like 1991 again!) but that a worthy and interesting story has been for the most part ignored (except by The Usual Suspects) because of the puerile intro.
This should really be resubmitted - and I'll say it again:
Slashdot
Leave the April Fools jokes for actual jokes. Actual content should be sacrocant.
Interesting that this "invention" press release was issued right after the heavy campaigning of Al Gore, "Inventor of the Internet" in WA.
./. Aggggh, &c.
Gosh. I never knew there was an election on in Western Australia. Thanks for keeping me informed!
ObClue: No, I don't give a flying fucking fruitbat for discussions of US politics in
It is actaully a reasonably good idea although I can't see how it could have taken so long to implement it. Now it is quite possible that this has been done before, but it certainly isn't just symbolic links!
... informative :P
Have a look here:
http://rsync.samba.org/
You may find it
Odd. I searched your link (your own posting history), and am inexplicably not desiring at this moment to strangle CmdrTaco, hoist the Stars And {strips|bars], and sing the chauvanistic anthem of choice.
Get to the point, please. A sound-bite, if you will.
Actually, it sounds (superficially) like rsync more than it does like symlinks alone.
[while I'm here and mentioning it, check out rproxy, which is truly qoole. You know how to use google.]
I think I know where the developers are coming from. In fact, I think it demonstrates one of the finest qualities of the "open-source" community and method - less reinventing of the metaphorical wheel. And no, GUI Linux installers don't count.
Because they're demonstrating that stuff is actually running on silicon proper - otherwise it's just be showing off some other manufacturers 3D hardware.
Please, keep in mind that this is /not/ meant to be flamish in nature. If it so appears, I shall strive for greater subtlety in future.
/. already, this item is further proof that /. really, really needs some kind of sub-editor to catch these things. After all, the banner says "News for Nerds", and any organ which deseminates news has to take care with such matters to ensure that they can continue to be taken seriously.
...
Well beyond the point that this is oldish news, and has appeared on
A phrase like "Hurd is Object Oriented, unlike Linux, so it may be a superior system in the long run." is so manifestly ambiguous and potentially contentious that it's a crying shame to see it writ upon my screen so. Time for a rethink that doesn't involve just hacking Slash, chaps.
On-topic: HURD does indeed look tres groovy, and I'm looking forward to giving it a try. I wonder if it runs on VMWare? I guess their's only one way to find out
Please, keep in mind that this is /not/ meant to be flamish in nature. If it so appears, I shall strive for greater subtlety in future.
/. already, this item is further proof that /. really, really needs some kind of sub-editor to catch these things. After all, the banner says "News for Nerds", and any organ which deseminates news has to take care with such matters to ensure that they can continue to be taken seriously.
...
Well beyond the point that this is oldish news, and has appeared on
A phrase like "Hurd is Object Oriented, unlike Linux, so it may be a superior system in the long run." is so manifestly ambiguous and potentially contentious that it's a crying shame to see it writ upon my screen so. Time for a rethink that doesn't involve just hacking Slash, chaps.
On-topic: HURD does indeed look tres groovy, and I'm looking forward to giving it a try. I wonder if it runs on VMWare? I guess their's only one way to find out
EtFB? Mein Gott! AICSA is EVERYWHERE! Aieeeeee! On Topic: I'm probably going to get a copy. You can't get too much documentation, though I can also reccomend the following links: http://netizen.com.au/services/training/modules/pe rlintro/materials.html http://netizen.com.au/services/training/modules/pe rlinter/materials.html http://netizen.com.au/services/training/modules/pe rlcgi/materials.html
Ah - I see. Sorry if I seemed to be casting aspersions :P
Yes, I quite agree for the most part. I do have one or two niggles with the idea, but my brane is too tired to formulate thoughts with any clarity at the moment.
Curse English and its ambiguous grammar!
Time for the FSF to develop GNU/Esperanto or something of that kidney.
"I'm sorry, sir, but I don't speak predicate calculus".
Don't buy Win9x box
Download Linux binary
Cackle as percived sales are re-adjusted
Advocating piracy - now that's the stuff to give to the troops!
Sheesh, and &c