[Gllug] Downright fun

[David Pashley]

Allen Baranov said, and I quote:
> On Tuesday 04 March 2003 18:21, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> > John reminded us that Linux is "downright fun".  So what are the fun
> > things you've discovered/built/got working under Linux recently?
> 
> Ok, just to be different and test the limits of the question I choose "|" 
> (pipe).
> 
> I love stringing commands together to get results which is something Unix was 
> built for. Failing that - perl. 

I could scare you with bash one liners. ;)
> 
> I also like to play with rpm - in that I am a rabid installer. I *need* the 
> latest of everything even if it breaks stuff (usually *something* on my 
> desktop is broken). tar,configure,make etc fall under this category too. 
> 
I know I will probably get flamed for saying this, but if you really
like up to date software, I would recommend that you give Debian
unstable a try. Just to be fair, I should also recommend gentoo, but
I've never used it so YMMV.

-- 
David Pashley
david at davidpashley.com
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.
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