-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have to agree with Janina on this one. The only way we're going to get Linux out to the general population is if we have it both ways...I.E., Xandros, Redhat, Mandrake and the like. However, us people who like to tinker with things don't need to use those distributions, bc we still have LFS/Slackware/etc to play with. It's that balance that keeps things going the way they have been. On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 09:34:12AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > The problem with the kind of attacks we saw here last week, the ones that castigate distros like Red Hat, is that it suggests to people they're less than adequate human beings for not rolling their own installations from scratch. Isn't the truth bigger than that? Isn't it wonderful that people who want the pre-configured, pre-built, "works out of the box" system plus those of us who want to tinker with every detail--that both of us can be served in the same OS. Isn't that the real point? > > Shaun Oliver writes: > > I'm not saying I like it anymore than you do > > it's just a fact. > > I like the other little known fact that I can make my shiney new linux > > system work however the bloody hell I want and if it breaks it's my own > > stupid fault. not the fault of some faceless know it all. > > > > -- > > Shaun Oliver > > > > > > "I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person." > > email: shaun.oliver at optusnet.com.au > > WEB: http://blindman.homelinux.org/~blindman/ > > IRC: irc.awesomechat.net:6666 > > IRCNICK: blindman > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAhotNNohoaf1zXJMRAuvmAKCKa4OwLi4NtP3zNO8x8VyGMLNkewCgk5XX jE3DwkqeZrLkaFUU9r/vFXU= =pz1q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
