[Gllug] Whinge

Dylan dylan at shinyboots.org.uk
Fri Aug 31 16:30:27 UTC 2001


YOU GUYS ARE REALLY FUCKING ME OFF

I'm a novice, myself - I have heard of Debian because I read about Linux 
before swapping over. I tried it, it crashed on first boot after install on 
one machine, and left me at a command line on the other - very encouraging.

You should be spreading your 'wisdom', not spitting vitriol at the people who 
can benefit from your help - I assume you are here because you want to 
discuss problems etc...

or is it just to WHINGE?

On Thursday 30 August 2001 14:39, you wrote:
> On 30 Aug 2001 14:30:33 +0100, Dan Kolb wrote:
> > Chances are, of course, that a lot of novices haven't heard of
> > Debian.
>
> That's their problem.


>
> > I'm sure there were problems with Linux (kernel), in that it caused
> > various data corruption in some circumstances.
>
> File system corruption is not the same though - I wasn't referring to
> kernel induced problems...and anyway, how many *production*
> distributions with dangerous kernels do you know of causing any
> corruption recently?
>
> > And yet you're still using Linux after these problems? Why?
>
> If you were to stick to purely "production" kernels you probably
> wouldn't have these problems. The only filesystem corruption I have
> suffered in recent memory is due to loopback device stuff - which most
> novice users would not know anything about to start with.
>
> > Why didn't you switch to, say, FreeBSD
>
> Personally? I would not switch due to licensing, but that's me.
>
> --jcm

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