[geeks] Mac definitions

[Jonathan Patschke]

On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> Slackware is hopelessly unmaintainable at this point unless you're
> willing to use exclusively Slackware's limited selection of [mostly
> badly outdated] packages and forgo technologies that everyone else takes
> for granted.

Yeah, but it's What I Ran back when all I ran was Linux.  Downloading the
latest ISO and running it in a VM is sort of like visiting the old folks'
home.

> Ubuntu?  The Windows of Linux distributions.  DON'T TOUCH THAT!  NO USER
> SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE!

I don't know if I'd insult Windows that badly.  I mean, they released
things -after- Windows Me.

> Fedora?  Why should we test major releases when we have you to test them
> for us?

Not just the releases, half the packages on there are just a hair short of
the bleeding edge.

> RHEL?  If kernel 2.6.18 and MySQL 5.0.77 (for example) were good enough
> for you in 2006, they should be good enough for you now.  And just don't
> get me started on rpm or the RH7 gcc fiasco.

RHEL 6 is a lot newer than that.  I understand RHEL's reasoning for
keeping old code, although RedHat do a reasonable job of merging in what
fixes they can without breaking the software that's stupidly written
exactly to their distribution.

> ...Have you looked at Gentoo?

* projectile vomit *


So, yeah, with all that, why WOULDN'T I run Linux?

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