Distro flamewar (was: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Linux success story)

[David McGlone]

On Tuesday 20 April 2004 04:10 pm, Aaron Patrick Lehmann wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:02:20PM -0400, David McGlone wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 April 2004 03:45 pm, Jukka Y wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 20 April 2004 22:07, N. Thompson wrote:
> > > > @ndrew wrote:
> > > > >>linux allows this to happen without disturbing a
> > > > >>user sitting the machine, so we used a desktop
> > > > >>Linux PC at a site with fast internet connection.
> > > > >
> > > > >It's always good to see Linux being applied to solve problems,
> > > > > rather than start "my OS is better than your OS" arguments. ;-)
> > > >
> > > > Which reminds me, when was the last time we had a good distro
> > > > flamewar? Right now I don't know what distro to vote for, I'll have
> > > > to decide after I find a distro I like but I'm about to try slackware
> > > > so hopefully there won't be a long wait :-)
> > > >
> > > > Anyway just to get things started, Mandrake's no good any more ;-)
> > >
> > > Hi !
> > >
> > > I have a Windows 98 SE. It is free (it came with the computer) and I
> > > guess it is "opensource" too (I can open it every time I turn the power
> > > on...). It has all software I need and it has worked well for over 5
> > > years now. I would recommend it to anyone.
> > >
> > > btw - what is "flame-war"? - can download it somewhere?
> >
> > Are you serious?
>
> I think this is glorious dry sarcasm, Dave.

He he he, and mine wasn't? :-)