[plug] PAINTBALL

[Caleb Duggan]

I'm in for the moment(may change depending upon the date/how much money i  
have at the time). Where is it happening? i'll need to download the  
parental consent form because i'm only 16.
I guess i'll join the .deb team(recently started using gentoo but was  
using ubuntu before).


On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:52:12 +0800, Tim Bowden <tim.bowden at westnet.com.au>  
wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 21:39 +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 21:29 +0800, Denis Brown wrote:
>> > At 10:20 AM 19/07/2006, Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:
>> > >I'm in too. Novell always have impressed me, this should be  
>> excellent..
>> >
>> > <distro-war = NO>
>> >
>
> <snip Mr Brown's praise of debian (& related distros)...>
>
>>
>> #define DISTRO_WAR FALSE
>
> Why???
>
>>
>> I read about someone using apt to upgrade SUSE from 8.x to 9.x (IIRC) -
>> it required a few circumlocutions, but then it worked really well, but I
>> haven't heard of anyone doing the upgrade you mentioned.
>>
>> Probably just as well that Debian is easy to upgrade - it was an
>> absolute pig to install  ;-) so doing it once was probably enough. - -
>> OK I'm talking as someone who has installed and run Slackware in the
>> kernel 1.0 days - I can even remember the feeling of running kernel
>> 1.3.20 (like have the squits, and no underwear) - sorta liberating, but
>> scary at the same time.  ;-)   And I have never had a good Debian
>> installation experience.
>> >
>> > Denis
>> >
>> Cheers
>> RM
>
> #define DISTRO_WAR TRUE
>
> Mr Meyer, Clearly your inability to have a 'good' debian install
> experience is way out of date and unrepresentative of the state of play.
> How could anyone want anything other than a disk of debian goodness when
> presented with a virgin (or not so virgin) laptop or pc desktop or mac
> or sparc workstation or ...
>
> Yes, it's that time again.  Following the success of the vim wars late
> last year (won by vim of course) it's time for all to put your money
> where your mouth is and support your favourite linux distro in true
> style; PAINTBALL!
>
> Turn your favourite flame war topic into /real/ pain (hopefully for the
> unwashed masses supporting the wrong distro) and join in defending the
> honour of your favourite distro[1].
>
> If you're interested, put your name in the hat (or on the list); at this
> stage no obligation, just a rough indicator of numbers.  We will need a
> few more than for the vim wars (laser tag) and the price is a bit higher
> (abt $80 or so?) but so is the fun.
>
> So who's in?
>
>
> Tim Bowden
>
> [1]  We can only have two teams so it's probably .deb v .rpm distros.
> Gentoo nuts will have to make a painful decision (and more pain on the
> battle field if you get it wrong? ;-)
>
>
>
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