funny you mentioned this.. once upon a time a friend of mine was in a desprite need of good floppies.. and he went to the site of some PIC making company and submited five times the request form for free technical info.. in a 2 days he got 5 sets of 2 good SONY floppies - one with the PDFs and one with AcrobatReader 2.something.. now, 5x2 = 10 good disks free.. what a deal, huh:)
I have about 10 years of experience with Unices. I've worked with Irix, SunOS, AIX, OSF, HP-UX. I've been working with GNU/Linux since 1994, and I've always been a Slackware fan. Last year I changed my job and went to a place where everything was Debian GNU/Linux.. In the beginning it was kind of difficult to me, but as learned and learnd the distro, I started to love it, and now even my desktop PC has a Debian. In the process of sysadmining around I got in touch with RedHats (yeah, well, politically correct) Trough my sysadmining the only difficult install was 2 years ago with OpenBSD.. and I'm still ashamed of me for not able to finish the installation. *sigh* Two months latter I did it, and now I have a bright shiny OpenBSD name server.. The point is, I cannot understand all of you who think there should be an easy.. no really, what do peaople need ? a) you're a J.R. Random User -- pick a distro (RedHat 8.0 is quite shiny), use office tools, watch movies, play Quake with a mouse click. (I'm not a zealot, I can understand end users need easy to use OS) b) you're a J.R. Random Sysadmin - (as i'd like to think of myself) -- I need to boot a minimal installation and add whatever i need.. as someone above pointed, we usually don't need xlibs.. why the hell i need a GUI installer ? I know what I am doing, and if there is a problem, i'd like it'll be me to fix it, not the installer to guess... *sigh*.. I'm still a Slackware fan deep inside.. but when you have 50+ machines, you cannot update them the slackware way.. not that easy as with Debian.. I still think a crafted production server can run under Slackware, having another two (testing and development) machines under slack.. or OpenBSD/FreeBSD of course.... but as long as I don't have unlimited resources, lack of machines, deadlines.. Debian GNU/Linux is my choice.. the way it is.
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It's GNU/Linux, you insensitive clod.
"Women like a guy who can fix a computer."
Naah. I asked a fellow sysadmin if this is true, and she said "No."
I imagine Linus staring at the snowflakes falling and with every one of them modifying version.h ...
"2.4.666 and counting.. "
funny you mentioned this.. :)
once upon a time a friend of mine was in a desprite need of good floppies.. and he went to the site of some PIC making company and submited five times the request form for free technical info.. in a 2 days he got 5 sets of 2 good SONY floppies - one with the PDFs and one with AcrobatReader 2.something.. now, 5x2 = 10 good disks free.. what a deal, huh
I have about 10 years of experience with Unices. I've worked with Irix, SunOS, AIX, OSF, HP-UX. I've been working with GNU/Linux since 1994, and I've always been a Slackware fan. Last year I changed my job and went to a place where everything was Debian GNU/Linux.. In the beginning it was kind of difficult to me, but as learned and learnd the distro, I started to love it, and now even my desktop PC has a Debian. In the process of sysadmining around I got in touch with RedHats (yeah, well, politically correct) Trough my sysadmining the only difficult install was 2 years ago with OpenBSD.. and I'm still ashamed of me for not able to finish the installation. *sigh* Two months latter I did it, and now I have a bright shiny OpenBSD name server.. The point is, I cannot understand all of you who think there should be an easy .. no really, what do peaople need ? a) you're a J.R. Random User -- pick a distro (RedHat 8.0 is quite shiny), use office tools, watch movies, play Quake with a mouse click. (I'm not a zealot, I can understand end users need easy to use OS) b) you're a J.R. Random Sysadmin - (as i'd like to think of myself) -- I need to boot a minimal installation and add whatever i need.. as someone above pointed, we usually don't need xlibs.. why the hell i need a GUI installer ? I know what I am doing, and if there is a problem, i'd like it'll be me to fix it, not the installer to guess ... *sigh* .. I'm still a Slackware fan deep inside.. but when you have 50+ machines, you cannot update them the slackware way.. not that easy as with Debian.. I still think a crafted production server can run under Slackware, having another two (testing and development) machines under slack.. or OpenBSD/FreeBSD of course.... but as long as I don't have unlimited resources, lack of machines, deadlines.. Debian GNU/Linux is my choice.. the way it is.
Thank you RMS.
just my $0.02