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The following comments are the stupid ideas of whoever posted them.
We do not agree with them in any way.
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Are you on crack?
(Score:0, Flamebait)
by Seth on Monday December 20, @06:11AM
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what the hell is wrong with you? slackware is a complete disaster when it
comes to systems administration:
no binary packaging system
ass-poor installer
bsd-style init scripts???
I'd like to see you administering a hundred slackware boxes. In fact, we
could all do with a laugh.
-sv
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Re: Are you on crack?
(Score:-2, Informative)
by slakdude on Monday December 20, @06:15AM
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> no binary packaging system
That is just wrong. If you actually bothered to check your facts, you
would know that Slackware has a very sensible BSD-ish packaging system.
Instead of using some ass-backwards format like RPM, it packages the
contents in a tar'd and gz'd file, adding an installation script. You can
add a package by running pkg_add pkg.tgz, and removing a package is done
by running pkg_delete pkg. Get your facts straight.
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Registered Slackware user #6.
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Re: Are you on crack?
(Score:0, Flamebait)
by Seth on Monday December 20, @06:13AM
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> You can add a package by running pkg_add pkg.tgz and removing a package
> is done by running pkg_delete pkg.
I'm sorry, but I don't consider anything that doesn't have something as
basic as dependency checking a packaging system. anything that would allow
you to pkg_delete a package WITHOUT FIRST MAKING SURE THAT IT WON'T BREAK
HALF THE WORLD has only one place on my system, and that is /dev/null.
-sv
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Why x86? That is so lame!
(Score:-1, Flamebait)
by sungod on Monday December 20, @06:22AM
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Why Athlons? You would need an extra A/C unit in each office just to keep
the heat down. And linux? Oh, please! I suggest you go with a set of nice
sparc stations running Solaris 8 -- at least it's still going to be around
one year later.
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Linux is obsolete -- (A. Tenenbaum, 1992).
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Re: Why x86? That is so lame!
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by Seth on Monday December 20, @06:19AM
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maybe because he needs to buy a 100 desktops and not 15 -- I believe that
would be about the same amount, no?
> And linux? Oh, please! I suggest you go with a set of nice sparc
> stations running Solaris 8 -- at least it's still going to be around
> one year later.
have you ever tried administering Solaris on a large scale? wait, let me
guess, no. oh, and good luck waiting for the patches from sun while your
boxes get cracked left and right after each new sploit.
-sv
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Try SuSE
(Score:-3, Interesting)
by adolph22 on Monday December 20, @06:30AM
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SuSE is used nearly everywhere in Europe. It's a nice KDE-centered system
that is RPM-based, features a convenient administration system called
"yast", and has been proven to be very stable.
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Meine lighten auf deblinken und haagen das.
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Re: Try SuSE
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by Seth on Monday December 20, @06:281AM
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KDE is butt-ugly and yast is a disaster area -- have you checked its
license? if you did, you'd know that it's a closed-source proprietary
system which has no place on a GPL system such as linux.
oh, and SuSE has been known to ship broken releases.
-sv
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FreeBSD, baby.
(Score:0, Troll)
by bsdune8 on Monday December 20, @06:42AM
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Forget linux. FreeBSD or bust!
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We have USB support now, too!
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Re: FreeBSD, baby.
(Score:0, Flamebait)
by Seth on Monday December 20, @06:41AM
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*** Sethdot system message: User account bsdune8 deleted ***
ooops, did I do that? ;)
-sv
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