[SLL] Hidy

[Glenn Stone]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 04:15:36PM -0800, Francois Caen wrote:
>On Dec 16, 2007 5:55 PM, chupacabra <chupacabra at subgenius.com> wrote:
>> Is there much traffic on this list?  Been on a few days and not seen
>> much.  Hidy to all.
>
>Not much traffic? Let me fix that for you.
>
>Debian is outdated

Not much argument.

>Gentoo is for crackheads

.... with way too much CPU and/or patience.

>Suse = Microsoft

Yes.

>Fedora is unstable

... by design.  You want stable, get CentOS.  You want a support staff, get
RHEL or OEL.  

>Ubuntu is for dummies

Hey, now, them's fightin' words.  :)

Actually?  Ubuntu is for folks who have neither time nor inclination to
fight with their systems.  Some folks (Gentoo) enjoy a good tussle.  I
don't.  I want it to Just Work, and I realize there are a few concessions to
purism that have to be made occasionally for that to happen... at least
until certain hardware vendors get their glass navels installed.  

I've run across a few places where Ubuntu doesn't actually Just Work, but
I've found in those situations that either Puppy or Debian will serve just
fine... of course, there are a few teeny little systems for which OpenBSD is
about all that'll fit these days.  (<128mb...  I think Open will boot down
to what, 12MB?  I know it'll go in 16.)

So, Francois, what're you running, Slack?  :)  

-- Glenn, amused