[ILUG] Re: Distros

[Braun Brelin]

> Dear Outmoded Theistic Concept On A Crutch! (tm)
>
> I'd have expected better.
>
> It's seems like we've managed to run the whole gamut of the flame war
> including the old favourites of ad-hominem, the straw man, appeals to
> authority, "ownership" of the ball, condescension, name calling and so on.

Well, not quite.  I'm still waiting to hear words comparing distro
supporters to such time honored things as :

1.  Nazi's.
2.  Fascists.
3.  Concentration camp guards
4.  Genocidal murderers
5.  Communists

etc. etc. etc.

After all, if Silvio Berlusconi can utter such (I believe he compared a
German MP or MEP to a concentration camp guard) why, then, so can we!

:-)

Braun Brelin


>
> And on.
>
> And on.
>
> Multiple distributions exist because people want different things from
> them.
>
> If it pleases Tom to periodically rebuild the entire system from scratch
> that's his affair, and if Dick likes to use Ubuntu and thinks it's the
> bee's knees that's fine too, but that's no excuse for them to harangue
> each other and Harry who just wants to get on with it about how their
> choice is the one true way and that any other choice is wrong, stupid and
> incompetent.
>
> What I choose to run on my desktop is up to me. What you choose is up to
> you.
>
> What gets on production servers should be chosen with an eye to
> maintainability and whether it fills the requirements for which it is to
> be used, and whether other people can pick up the thread if you are not
> available to run the systems.
>
> IMNSHO an experienced sysadmin really shouldn't give a flying f*ck what
> somebody else runs on their desktops and servers, so long as I don't have
> to deal with it.
>
> The comparison to the doof-doof mob is grimly appropriate.
> Which is worse, the barely ex-teen in the tarted up Punto, or the more
> middle-aged guy in a reasonably large family car who insists on racing
> him?
>
> Friends don't let friends do advocacy.
>         Paul
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> Notice how restful it is to watch the cursor blink. Close your eyes.
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> felt otherwise.
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