[geeks] Ok I am ready to kill this Fu**ing linux box

[Mike Nicewonger]

on 5/24/02 10:39 AM, Joshua D Boyd at jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu wrote:

> On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:33:41AM -0400, alex j avriette wrote:
> 
>> first, im not convinced that a) millions of people use xine, and b) that
>> millions of people happily use linux. i'm sure that a large percentage
>> of the people who use linux use it because they would prefer to not use
>> windows (or macos or whatever). this is documented, and rms even
>> answered a question about people using linux out of ideological reasons.
>> but i digress.
> 
> I don't know about people using linux, but I know millions of people use
> FreeBSD.  Off the top of my head, I can't think of anyone who doesn't use
> freebsd.

I don't. The installer sux goat balls.

> 
>> it has never been my experience with such tools (such as yUP) that they
>> are easy or nice.
> 
> ..deb is the happiest I've been with a packaging system, and it still really
> pisses me off frequently for doing stupid, stupid, stupid things.

agreed.

Mike N