[clug] Re: Slackware session: was Debian session for any Choobs?

[Jim Croft]

You are kidding, right?

Given the apparent [citation needed] biased y-chromosome distribution
in CLUG, distro dimension and comparison is what it is all about...

There can be no other way...

jim

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Nathan
O'Sullivan<nathan.osullivan at team.mammoth.com.au> wrote:
> +1 my distribution is better than yours flame war
>
> I thought we were past this?
>
> Adam Jenkins wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Full Metal Gerbil? Ubuntu "is all about updates" but Slackware is better
>>> >because they don't update? What do you do for security issues?
>>
>> http://www.slackware.com/security/list.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009
>> Slackware don't update for the sake of updating..  It's only for good
>> reason (i.e. stability/security).
>>
>>>
>>> I think this guy is suffering "second girlfriend syndrome" and doesn't
>>> >realise it (ie: your new girlfriend is better because *you* are better).
>>>
>>
>> Er what?  I don't understand your analogy.  Ubuntu seems to have acquired
>> the reputation of being almost as hardcore (+1 geek factor) as Debian, only
>> shinier and with free media.  Otherwise it suffers from bad design, which
>> anyone who has used a semi-decent stable OS like Slackware, or a commercial
>> desktop OS like Fedora/SuSE would realise straight away.   But Ubuntu is
>> good for people who are new to Linux, and the LiveCD thing is cool, except
>> that almost every other distro has it now too.
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