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

alex j avriette avriettea at speakeasy.net
Mon May 20 06:56:04 CDT 2002


note for the weary: this has degenerated into flamesville...

On Monday, May 20, 2002, at 03:18 AM, David Cantrell wrote:

> 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.

i dont believe in kernel modules.

> 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!

claimed to be supported and only poorly supported. either support it, or 
dont. are you listening?

>>     inane user community (try #linux on dalnet some day when you need
>> help)
>
> Try #anything on almost any network.  What's your point?

my point is you will get much further with openbsd users.

>>       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?

no, but i do have to put food on the table and pay rent. i have seen 
many job postings indicating they do *not* want (in big bold capital 
letters) Linux admins to apply for the position(s). it was just more 
nudge away from linux that my coworkers thought it was stupid. at the 
time, i didnt know about openbsd. now i do, and i am much happier.

alex



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