[plug] PAINTBALL

[Daniel Pearson]

Tim Bowden wrote:

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> #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 experience is way out of date and unrepresentative of the state of play.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? ;-)
Yarr, shiver me timbers - put my name down for the .deb!