[Lvlug] Laptop Linux?

[jhigdon at linuxfools.org]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 11:43:14AM -0400, Hanuman wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Brian Martin wrote:
> 
> >Odd, I thought he was asking for experience, not soliciting personal 
> >opinion on other's experiences.  My mistake.  Your expertise on my 
> >experiences has been duly filed to /dev/null.
> >
> >Brian
> 
> I don't know anything about your experiences, nor would I claim to.
> 
> The point is: it is almost inconceivable a Slackware fanatic is going to
> switch to a slow, bloated RPM distro. That's pretty straightforward.

You're making assumptions. Very poor ones. I also don't understand
your bloated RPM distro comments...bloated how? I am curious since
very high performance, high load systems use these distro's without 
problems (kernel.org for instance). Should the bloated comments be 
directed towards Brians /dev/null too? Or is it the cool thing to 
go around talking about what you know very little about.

> I've never heard a story of a Red Hat expat coming back to his / her
> original distro. Once the Linux user gets into Slackware, or Debian, or
> a variant thereof, and has the chops to use it, they rarely come back,
> if ever. I stopped using Red Hat and Mandrake a while ago and never
> looked back unless I had to help someone else. (Russ and LinuxTLE, but
> that doesn't really count because FreeBSD is sitting there now, plus TLE
> is l33ter than regular RH)
> 
> And I just don't see the point of trying to belittle me. I have some
> twenty colleges (including WUSTL no less) begging me to patronise them
> and I'm a developer of a Linux distro at 17. I practically guessed my
> way through FreeBSD by poking around in there. Do you really think a
> little net-barb like that is going to sting that much? I'm just sitting
> here listening to Black Uhuru with a dumb ass grin on my face.

You don't see a point in his attempt to belittle..Yet you try and
do the same thing in return. Now for my turn. What does "developer" 
mean, do you actually help design and develop core infrastructure
or are you some toon who comments on the forums, makes some packages
and calls yourself a developer? If thats the case, I'm developer 
for about 80 billion distro's. (we all know there are almost that 
many out there ;) So sit there with the dumb ass grin, the truth
hurts.

--sosolly