[geeks] A Real OS? (was: Re: my capitalization.. etc.)

[David Cantrell]

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 09:20:11PM -0400, alex j avriette wrote:

> i never had a solid well documented kernel when i was running linux. i 
> ran it for a few years, but the mysterious reboots in the middle of the 
> night, huge kernels (>6mb once!), poor support for my platform (mac 
> ppc)

I have never experienced any of those.  At least not since the crashes I
got with the pre-1.0 kernels.  And if your kernels are that big, YOU are
doing something wrong.  Here, have a kernel module.

And I find it odd that here you whine because your chosen platform is
poorly supported (it's true that driver support for Mac PPC is not good)
and yet praise *BSD for exactly the same reason!

>     inane user community (try #linux on dalnet some day when you need 
> help)

Try #anything on almost any network.  What's your point?

My experience of the Linux user community is different.  But then, I don't
use any of the large IRC networks.

>       and being scorned by my unix using peers convinced me it was just 
> not for me.

Are you that insecure that you give a shit what they think?

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