[plug] Re: kernel update was: USB palm pilot

[caston at arach.net.au]

Quoting Andrew Pamment <pamment at iinet.net.au>: 
 
> On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 00:01, caston at arach.net.au wrote:  
> >  
> > Actually not yet... I've seems to get some life but it does not yet seem to 
> work. Further  
> > investigation is needed..  
>  
> Hmm.. well I would be interested to learn how you go with your 
> investigation, as I have been thinking about getting a palm myself. 
>  
> > I have an open mind for OpenBSD. If you think the Debian zombies are bad 
> you should see  
> > the one for Mandrake. Just ask Leon.  
>  
> Yeess. Mandrake uuugh. You know, I would be interested in reading an 
> article about these distros that people use and *are* happy with, and 
> why they chose them over all the others. Mandrake I can understand 
> newbies getting into (although think they should be getting into 
> slackware) Debian however I can't understand why anyone in their right 
> mind would use it. So often you see articles about why people don't like 
> distros, but not why they do. I know that debian seems to be quite 
> popular with PLUG members and I would really like to know what draws 
> them to it.  
>  
 
To be honest the first time I tried Debian I hated it and the reason was that I didn't know how to 
set it up so I just kept dual booting between Windows and Redhat but I mostly still used 
Windows. 
 
It wasn't until Woody came out and I'd been working with people that used Debain and I started 
getting throughly sick of Windows that I made the switch. Since then I've dropped WIndows 
almost completely.  
 
I actually remember anxiously awaiting the release because I didn't want to use potato due to 
my first experience with it. People told me that I could just change the apt sources to testing 
but I thought that would be kinda dodgey so I waited until the offical release. 
 
It was the package management of Debian that showed me the real advantages of Linux. 
 
In Redhat it seemed that downloading and installing anything turned me into a mad typist for a 
short period. 
 
> > I think this one was optimized for my CPU, kinda like the Gentoo stage 3 
> tarball.  
>  
> Excellent. 
>  
> Andrew  
>  
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